INJUDICIOUS | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of injudicious in English

Examples of injudicious

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However, it should be noted that injudicious use of vaccine might cause a side effect, such as acceleration of antigenic drift and complicate epidemiological investigation.
When laws were passed with a view to their regulation they received them in a way which was at once arrogant and singularly injudicious.
But of all mankind, there are none so shocking as these injudicious civil people.
He had the impossible task imposed upon him by a liberal but injudicious patron.
The failures are doubtless to be ascribed to the injudicious manner in which it has been applied.
Such is the use of foresight from which, judicious or injudicious, springs all the wisdom or all the unhappiness of mankind.
An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory.
So, little by little, his fortune became shrunken toward nothingness, by reason of injudicious investments.
No matter how unwise their employment, how injudicious the time put in, the men must be paid.
The general engagement was considered injudicious in the present condition of his troops, so that no alternative remained but that of retreat.
The great source of a loose style is the injudicious use of those words termed ----.
To ride in one, foretells injudicious engagements will be entered into by you.
The firm prospered for a time, but an injudicious extension of credit led to its suspension.
The girl smiled again, and he felt that he had chosen an injudicious word.
Taxation has been, and is oppressive, and the financial arrangements are said to be very injudicious.
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Translations of injudicious

in Chinese (Traditional)
不明智的, 缺乏判斷力的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
不明智的, 缺乏判断力的…
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