Imprudence
[ɪm'prʊdns]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Indiscretion, heedlessness, carelessness, rashness, inconsiderateness, improvidence, want of forethought.
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Examples
- I suspect some imprudence of Mr. Franklin's on the Continent--with a woman or a debt at the bottom of it--had followed him to England. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The hopelessness and the imprudence of this proceeding failed to strike me before I had actually written the opening lines of the letter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Then the poor old gentleman revealed the whole truth to her--that his son was still paying the annuity, which his own imprudence had flung away. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She was then but fifteen, which must be her excuse; and after stating her imprudence, I am happy to add, that I owed the knowledge of it to herself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Well, said Miss Crawford, and do you not scold us for our imprudence? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- By means of those cash accounts, every merchant can, without imprudence, carry on a greater trade than he otherwise could do. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the imprudence of such a match! Jane Austen. Emma.
- This may sometimes, perhaps, be done without any imprudence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Even those Scotch banks which never distinguished themselves by their extreme imprudence, were sometimes obliged to employ this ruinous resource. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I'm afraid, Mr. van der Luyden said, that Madame Olenska's kind heart may have led her into the imprudence of calling on Mrs. Beaufort. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Great imprudence, Master Copperfield. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was the imprudence which had brought things to extremity, and obliged her brother to give up every dearer plan in order to fly with her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I see the imprudence of it. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave so precious a thing in the office behind me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her discretions interested him almost as much as her imprudences: he was so sure that both were part of the same carefully-elaborated plan. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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