94 examples of ill-advised in sentences

You yourself might be so ill-advised as to tell the whole story in the end.

"But are not your intentions somewhat ill-advised considering her position as a criminal lunatic?"

An ill-advised ambition hath put thee on this useless trial.

It is 'futile,' 'ill-advised,' 'intrinsically insane,' 'unpractical,' 'visionary.'

"'I think he felt naturally annoyed that he had been so ill-advised by his solicitors.'

As he went along he invented all sorts of ironical remarks he might have made to Arkwright, which would have been unwise; then he thought of sober reasoning he could have used, which would perhaps have been just as ill-advised.

[Obs.]; shiftless; unstatesmanlike. unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted, foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish &c (inconsistent) 608.

'I am sick to death of this ill-advised, unreasonable journey.

As an expert animal-breeder, his selections were at times ill-advised.

We usually find upon enquiry, however, that the "fair trial" which they claim to have given, consisted of a haphazard and ill-advised course of meals, for a month, a week, or a few days intermittently, when a meat dinner was from some reason or other not available.

"Ill-advised," said the big man, shaking his head; "very ill-advised.

"Ill-advised," said the big man, shaking his head; "very ill-advised.

I shall take another and more fitting opportunity to speak to you on your ill-advised conduct.

He had felt, as at the time of its first publication, that the editorial was ill-advised.

It was most ill-advised.

Visibly, on the map of the world it has a likeness to open hands, while the German Empireexcept for a few ill-advised and imitative coloniesis clenched into a central European unity.

The ill-advised equerry of Marie was therefore compelled to retire without his credentials, and the Queen-mother was subjected to the mortification of offering an ample apology to Louis, through the medium of the messenger whom he in his turn despatched to her, for the arrogance and discourtesy of her follower.

The Cardinal, however, proved less forgiving than the destined victim of this ill-advised and undignified conspiracy.

With that ill-advised self-confidence of which I have already made mention, I at once set about demolishing this picture.

Ill-advised should we be were we always to take men's declarations respecting themselves and others for sterling coin.

The Lord Chief Justice "summed up strongly for an acquittal," as a morning paper said; he declared that "a more ill-advised and more injudicious proceeding in the way of a prosecution was probably never brought into a court of justice," and described us as "two enthusiasts who have been actuated by a desire to do good in a particular department of society."

Guessing that this would mean disaster to her ill-advised occupants, he waved his hand at them to keep out.

"It's an ill-advised thing to talk about rich men," said he.

The example of the English colonies had long since awakened among the more enlightened class of creoles on the continent a desire for emancipation, which the events in France on the one hand, and the ill-advised, often cruel measures adopted by the Spanish authorities to quench that aspiration, on the other hand, had only served to make irresistible.

Some ill-advised writers have ventured to state that Iseult of Brittany, whose jealousy had been aroused, was guilty of Tristan's death by falsely averring, in answer to his feverish inquiry, that the long-expected vessel was wafted along by black sails; but, according to other authorities, she remained gentle and lovable to the end.

94 examples of  ill-advised  in sentences