Adjective : an injudicious decision. From Dictionary.com.
Conservatism blocks the wheels of progress, or radicalism, in its unbalanced enthusiasm, destroys by injudiciousness the good that has been gradually accumulating. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The Lib-Dims are not doing too badly but are having problems because of a certain injudiciousness in their choice of donors: The Liberal Democrats report a turnaround from a deficit of some £207,000 to a surplus of £1.17m. From Wordnik.com. [Party funds] Reference
Nor will the candid student of history, if he but consider the attitude of the prelates at the colloquy of Poissy, be more inclined than were the Protestants of his own day to censure Theodore Beza for any degree of alleged injudiciousness exhibited in that celebrated sentence in his speech which provoked the outburst of indignation on the part of Tournon and his colleagues. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
She was an older woman, and had learnt the injudiciousness of impulsive behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
The words burst from the major's lips ere he had time to realize the injudiciousness of his remarks. From Wordnik.com. [An Undivided Union] Reference
It speaks great injudiciousness in the matter of discerning between things that differ, and which doth more excel. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
Fairchilds dismissed the subject, realizing the injudiciousness of being too confidential with this girl on so short an acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch] Reference
The underhand correspondence could not have been carried on without great blindness and carelessness, or, at least, injudiciousness, on Lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Sides of the Shield] Reference
After glancing at the cards, she conceded the injudiciousness of saying that she was out, and told Moses to announce that she would be down in a moment. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
They both wanted it badly, you could see it writ large in the response to each winner, each moment of injudiciousness, each turbulent change of fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Both parties were steadfast in their claims, while the vehemence and injudiciousness of the orthodox mediator increased the dissension, and ruined all prospects of peace. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
But the ice & snow, & the long hard journey, & the injudiciousness of laying out any money except what we are obliged to part with while we are so much in debt, settles the case differently. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Letters of Mark Twain] Reference
'Just bordering, or as one may say remotely verging, upon the confines of injudiciousness perhaps, Sir,' returned Brass, looking timidly at the dwarf's cunning eyes, which were turned towards the fire and reflected its red light. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
"Just bordering, or as one may say remotely verging, upon the confines of injudiciousness perhaps, sir," returned Brass, looking timidly at the dwarf's cunning eyes, which were turned towards the fire and reflected its red light. From Wordnik.com. [Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
Page 57 peculiarly obnoxious class, having been issued for the Western Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad, of which George W. Swepson was president, might have been mentioned as increasing the injudiciousness of the purchase. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference
He felt in an instant the injudiciousness of fostering by his conduct the latent jealousy which always lurked at the bottom of his mother's heart, and which nothing but the united talent and goodness of Lady Annabel could have hitherto baffled. From Wordnik.com. [Venetia] Reference
The extreme injudiciousness of repeating these will be at once apparent, when we reflect on the unsatisfactory discussions which they too frequently occasion, and on the load of advice which they are the cause of being tendered, and which is, too often, of a kind neither to be useful nor agreeable. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
We have the testimony of men of years and experience, that the great expense necessarily incurred for all this costly apparatus, has not been made with the injudiciousness and extravagance, which, too frequently, mark the expenditures of the young, but with a prudence becoming the sons of the plain, unpretending State of North Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of the Members of the Dialectic Society Instituted in the University of North Carolina June 3, 1795, Together With Historical Sketches] Reference
Scripture (like other authors) useth a metaphor only to one purpose atone time; and though many more similitudes may by fancy be found out, it is certain, but one is intended; which I take notice of on purpose to reprove the vanity and injudiciousness of chasing metaphors farther than ever they were intended: for a metaphor is commonly used to represent to our mind the first and most obvious likeness of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09.] Reference
A happy one; and that I feel the injudiciousness of having married a. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
Indeed I both despise and fear a very high com-plimenter. — Despise him for his designing flattery, supposing him not to believe himself; or, if he mean what he says, for his injudiciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
‘Just bordering, or as one may say remotely verging, upon the confines of injudiciousness perhaps, Sir,’ returned Brass, looking timidly at the dwarf’s cunning eyes, which were turned towards the fire and reflected its red light. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
We will take lessons from them and try to avoid what seems to have been their great mistake -- injudiciousness; and perhaps showing a little too plainly that they considered them heathen, and were determined to convert them at any cost. ". From Wordnik.com. [Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission] Reference
For this we often see in the imperfect felicity of this world, that many men who have all the materials and circumstances of a worldly happiness about them; yet, by the unskilful management of the matter, and from a lightness and injudiciousness of mind, not knowing when they are well, they make a hard shift, even when they are in as good circumstances as it is almost possible for men to be in this world, to be very discontented and miserable in their own opinions. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.] Reference
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