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Ill-advised   /ɪl-ædvˈaɪzd/   Listen
Ill-advised

adjective
1.
Without careful prior deliberation or counsel.  Synonym: unadvised.  "It would be ill-advised to accept the offer" , "Took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations"






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"Ill-advised" Quotes from Famous Books



... different qualities or timbres (Colour), and with various degrees of power (Intensity). And although the modern schools of composition for the voice do not encourage the display of florid execution, a singer would be ill-advised indeed to neglect this factor, on the plea that it has no longer any practical application. No greater error is conceivable. Should an instrumental virtuoso fail to acquire mastery of transcendental ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... seemed an unlikely field for the exercise of such curiosity: Justine's few glimpses of Hanaford society had revealed it as rather a dull thick body, with a surface stimulated only by ill-advised references to the life of larger capitals; and the concentrated essence of social Hanaford was of course to be found at the Gaines entertainments. It presented itself, however, in the rich June afternoon, on ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... at my right side and was immediately made aware of the fact that all was well with me there, and that all my trouble had come from my ill-advised "wondering" whether that Midas omelet would bother ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs

... from the band of King's men. Their leader snapped his fingers. "That for your slippery devices! Is the Gainer so ill-advised as to imagine that he is dealing with ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... a very ill-advised distribution of coppers which had taken place at their first onslaught, were collecting about the table with clamorous entreaties for l'ultimo. Uncle Dan had begun it by his inability to resist the supplicating eyes of a beatific midget who chewed the hem of her frock ...
— A Venetian June • Anna Fuller


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