Imprudent
[ɪm'pruːd(ə)nt] or [ɪm'prudnt]
Definition
(adj.) lacking wise self-restraint; 'an imprudent remark' .
(adj.) not prudent or wise; 'very imprudent of her mother to encourage her in such silly romantic ideas'; 'would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy'- A.M.Schlesinger .
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Definition
(a.) Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Indiscreet, inconsiderate, incautious, injudicious, improvident, careless, rash, unadvised.
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Definition
adj. wanting foresight or discretion: incautious: inconsiderate.—n. Impru′dence.—adv. Impru′dently.
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Examples
- Since that imprudent transaction, they have received from it--not one farthing! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In affording you this interview, the young lady has taken a natural, perhaps, but still a very imprudent step. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- So imprudent a match on both sides! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I adore all imprudent matches. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Do not involve yourself or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- His opponent was the son of his principal warder, and was so imprudent as to give the challenge to this barter of buffets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They heard merely that storms have caused us to lose some ships of the line after an imprudent fight. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By Heaven, my small boy, but you are a little imprudent! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Imprudent, if you pleasebut not mad. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And really, added Edmund, the day is so mild, that your sitting down for a few minutes can be hardly thought imprudent. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She herself, by her own selfishness and imprudent love for him had denied him his just rights and pleasures hitherto. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Your tone is deplorably imprudent, sir--moderate it on the spot! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My father and mother knew nothing of that; they only felt how imprudent a match it must be. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I am afraid he has been very imprudent, and has deserved to lose Mr. Darcy's regard. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was the natural result of the conduct of each party, and such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all likely to make an imprudent match. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Their Tartarean situation might by some have been called an imprudent one for two unattended women. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A hasty and imprudent attachment may arisebut there is generally time to recover from it afterwards. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But Miss Bart showed herself a less ready prey than might have been expected from her imprudent opening. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You will excuse me, gentlemen; I was imprudent. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was lively, witty, good-natured, and a pleasant companion; but idle, thoughtless, and imprudent to the last degree. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Oh what a worthy man he is, Mister Copperfield, but how imprudent he has been! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This fiend has several imprudent letters--imprudent, Watson, nothing worse--which were written to an impecunious young squire in the country. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nobody could be so imprudent! Jane Austen. Emma.
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