Through his ill-advised pronouncements and actions, Tom has laid the ground for intolerance and xenophobia within his circle of friends.
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Ill-advised
Synonyms for "ill-advised" (151 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (45)
Related words (75)
out of placeout of timeoverhastyoversoonprecipitateprecociousprematurepreviousrashreasonlessrecklessreflexreflexiverushedsenselessshortsightedsnapspoiledspontaneousstupid
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Adjective(1 words)
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Translations
17 translations across 10 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄβουλος adj (carried out without wise counsel)
Bulgarian
2 entries- необмислен adj (carried out without wise counsel)
- прибързан adj (carried out without wise counsel)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 失策的 adj (carried out without wise counsel)
- 欠考慮的 adj (carried out without wise counsel)
- 欠考虑的 adj (carried out without wise counsel)
Finnish
1 entries- ajattelematon adj (carried out without wise counsel)
German
1 entries- unklug adj (carried out without wise counsel)
Greek
1 entries- ασύνετος adj (carried out without wise counsel)
Latin
1 entries- inconsultus adj (carried out without wise counsel)
Pohnpeian
1 entries- kaweidsuwed adj (carried out without wise counsel)
Polish
3 entries- nierozsądny adj (carried out without wise counsel)
- nieroztropny adj (carried out without wise counsel)
- nierozważny adj (carried out without wise counsel)
Spanish
3 entries- aconsejado malamente adj (acting unwisely)
- desaconsejado adj (carried out without wise counsel)
- mal aconsejado adj (acting unwisely)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
I still believe that doing that is ill-advised.
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I still believe doing that is ill-advised.
Source: tatoeba (7367592)
He said that swabbing your own throat was ill-advised.
Source: tatoeba (8785279)
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