Ill-advised Sentence Examples

ill-advised
  • They would be very ill-advised to move in that direction.

    5
    0
  • Tyrone and other Irish clan chieftains resented this summary interference with their ancient social organization, and their resistance was strengthened by the ill-advised measures against the Roman Catholics which Chichester was compelled to take by the orders of the English ministers.

    2
    0
  • The first blunder of the Hats was the hasty and ill-advised war with Russia.

    3
    2
  • His early exploits against the English were failures and revealed in the young prince both avarice and stubborn persistence in projects obviously ill-advised.

    1
    0
  • It is considered extremely ill-advised to fail to deliver the goods.

    2
    1
  • Britney Spears and Jason Alexander - We know that Britney and Justin splitting has a bigger celeb factor, but ill-advised Vegas wedding to a former classmate angle just makes this story more fun.

    1
    0
  • This vicious system, grafted as it was upon an inefficient administration, and added to the weight of a continually depreciated currenc y, debased both by ill-advised fiscal measures and by public cupidity, formed one of the principal causes of the financial embarrassments which assailed the treasury with ever increasing force in the latter part of the 16th and during the 17th and 18th centuries.

    0
    0
  • In fact, after some fruitless attempts to save his brother, variously related by his biographers, Joseph became aware that Andre's only chance of safety lay in being forgotten by the authorities, and that ill-advised intervention would only hasten the end.

    0
    0
  • He had a hand in the negotiations for the Concordat, but, according to Lucien Bonaparte, looked on that measure as "ill-advised and retrograde."

    0
    0
  • The dangers of conjectural emendation are well known and apparent; large numbers of such emendations have been ill-advised; but in the case of many passages the only alternative for the textual critic who is at once competent and honest is to offer such emendations or to indicate that such passages are corrupt and the means of restoring them lacking.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • Gradually Warham and Fox retired from the government; the occasion of Fox's resignation of the privy seal was Wolsey's ill-advised attempt to drive Francis I.

    0
    0
  • To collect the arkansas home owner insurance with trends showing a little distressed really ill-advised.

    0
    0
  • Balfour so ill-advised as to make himself their echo.

    0
    0
  • To us today the 20th Century decision to extend the church by the building of a chancel in a totally different style seems ill-advised.

    0
    0
  • Later, Bute roused further hostility by his cider tax, an ill-advised measure producing only 75,00o a year, imposing special burdens upon the farmers and landed interest in the cider counties, and extremely unpopular because extending the detested system of taxation by excise, regarded as an infringement of the popular liberties.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • But whatever the guilt or innocence of the Jesuits, and whether their suppression were ill-advised or not, there appears to be no ground for impeaching the motives of Clement, or of doubting that he had the approval of his conscience.

    0
    0
  • Keep in mind that shoes are 'wear' items and will need to be replaced, and if you are serious about your game, you would not be ill-advised to have a pair of shoes that you only use for tennis, to avoid the wear and tear of everyday use.

    0
    0
  • The majority of the Friends star's moments that she would like to have back are based on being caught in a wardrobe slip, but she also has a few times where she said something that may have been ill-advised.

    0
    0
  • The king had good intentions, but his mind was warped by Dutch prejudices, and he was ill-advised and acted unadvisedly.

    0
    1
  • The result was largely due to the king, who even when he was ill-advised did at least work steadily at his task of government.

    1
    1
    Advertisement
  • The vain attempts of the Gironde to reconcile the king and the Revolution, the ill-advised decree of the Assembly on the 8th of August, freeing La Fayette from his guilt in forsaking his army; his refusal to vote for the deposition of the king, and the suspected treachery of the court, led to the success of the republican forces when, on the 10th of August, the mob of Paris organized by the revolutionary Commune rose against the monarchy.

    1
    1
  • Aunt Queenie, a lesser witch, somewhat demonstrative and ill-advised, gave well-taken opportunities to Betty Elliott.

    1
    1
  • And this objection attributes to speeding all the benefits of experience, which seems rather ill-advised.

    1
    1