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    injudicious


    1. Every injudicious and unsuccessful project in agriculture, mines, fisheries, trade, or manufactures, tends in the same manner to diminish the funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour


    2. In every such project, though the capital is consumed by productive hands only, yet as, by the injudicious manner in which they are employed, they do not reproduce the full value of their consumption, there must always be some diminution in what would otherwise have been the productive funds of the society


    3. Some improper regulations, some injudicious restraints, imposed by the servants of the East India Company upon the rice trade, contributed, perhaps, to turn that dearth into a famine


    4. An injudicious tax offers a great temptation to smuggling


    5. Could I fairly be described as injudicious in some of my observations?


    6. Had injudicious censorship allowed news of the plight of our forces to reach Madrid, Spain would have hurled its strength towards the city's defences, to save a national disgrace by assault at frightful sacrifice


    7. But the quick and perhaps injudicious success over the French resulted in American overconfidence, even arrogance


    8. But within me, unexplainable, the Love of Christ just deepened with every act of violence and injudicious passion that was brought forth from their every effort, but to no avail


    9. For instance, the neighbor made friends the very first evening with Papa, who walked with injudicious inattention in our garden and slipped down through a gap in the fence into his orchard and his arms, he being engaged in picking up the fallen plums for his wife to make jam of; and he told me when he came in one day at dinner and found me struggling through what he considered dark ways and I thought were cabbages, that my salvation lay in almonds


    10. The first is the most injudicious

    11. Then I put her through the following catechism: for a girl of twenty-two it was not injudicious


    12. The least injudicious or impatient movement on the part of David might betray them, and time was absolutely necessary to insure the safety of the scout


    13. In a collection of so serious savages, there is never to be found any impatient aspirant after premature distinction, standing ready to move his auditors to some hasty, and, perhaps, injudicious discussion, in order that his own reputation may be the gainer


    14. Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;—whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:—whether suborned boys—a numerous band of mercenaries—might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;—it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features


    15. I think them injudicious, but I am not paid for giving any opinion on their merits


    16. It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader to exactly identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive


    17. But at first, when he did not yet feel secure in his position, he knew it would affect too many interests, and would be injudicious


    18. His injudicious zeal for the temporal welfare of the Church was damaging the Ribierist cause


    19. Of their terrible chief few details came out during the proceedings, and if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavored to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known


    20. It is probable that some injudicious comments in the Press may have warned him that the police were using them as a bait

    21. Mawmsey, an important grocer in the Top Market, who, though not one of his patients, questioned him in an affable manner on the subject, he was injudicious enough to give a hasty popular explanation of his reasons, pointing out to Mr


    22. , using company cash for an injudicious acquisition); or for portfolio considerations, such as required redemptions of ownership interests


    23. Alexander did not insert them in his letter to Napoleon, because with his characteristic tact he felt it would be injudicious to use them at a moment when a last attempt at reconciliation was being made, but he definitely instructed Balashev to repeat them personally to Napoleon


    24. My pupil was a lively child, who had been spoilt and indulged, and therefore was sometimes wayward; but as she was committed entirely to my care, and no injudicious interference from any quarter ever thwarted my plans for her improvement, she soon forgot her little freaks, and became obedient and teachable


    25. It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive


    26. Alexander did not insert them in his letter to Napoleon, because with his characteristic tact he felt it would be injudicious to use them at a moment when a last attempt at reconciliation was being made, but he definitely instructed Balashëv to repeat them personally to Napoleon


    27. But I believe, if any thing could retard or eventually destroy it—if any thing could strangle in the cradle the infant Hercules of the American Navy—it would be the very injudicious mode in which that power has been attempted to be prematurely brought into action, and kept in action, during the two last administrations


    28. Although a strong sensation would probably be produced by the discovery of this circumstance, and it might be perverted much to the injury of the feelings of particular individuals, he hoped the good sense of the community would induce them, while they properly appreciated this attempt of a foreign Government, not to be led into rash or injudicious measures


    29. nothing can so tend to strangle the infant Hercules of the American navy, as the injudicious manner in which that power has been attempted to be brought into action, 233;


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    Synonyms for "injudicious"

    injudicious silly senseless witless imprudent unwise impolitic indiscreet

    "injudicious" definitions

    lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise