ill-conceived

[ il-kuh n-seevd ]

/ ˈɪl kənˈsivd /

badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.

Words nearby ill-conceived

He was finally boxed in by his own ill-conceived red line until Putin offered him a way out.

Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick On How Obama Should Handle the Crisis In Syria |Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick |October 15, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
He admires the “courage of the Dream 9” but calls it an “ill-conceived protest.”

The Dream 9 Ripple Effect |Terry Greene Sterling |August 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Unfortunately, weeks had been wasted on ill-conceived recounts, and now time was running out.

What if the Supreme Court Had Declined to Hear Bush v. Gore? |Megan McArdle |April 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The ill-conceived plan received international media attention, but at the time there was no mention of Mutombo.

Basketball Great Dikembe Mutombo’s Crazy Congo Gold Scandal |Christine Pelisek |January 18, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

The Iraqi Sunnis are just now recovering from their ill-conceived boycott of the 2005 elections.

Election Boycotts Don't Work |Matthew Frankel |November 3, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
Why the Russians adhere so tenaciously to this ill-conceived four-wheeled conveyance, we could not divine.

Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia |Maturin M. Ballou
But all these great resources were thrown away in an ill-conceived and worse executed campaign.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV |Aubrey Stewart
Through pride one shapes oneself towards a best, though at first it may be an ill-conceived best.

First and Last Things |H. G. Wells
Ideas so vague and ill-conceived can never maintain their ground.

Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) |Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
James abandoned that ill-conceived idea and went on sinking deep and feeling miserable.

The Fourth R |George Oliver Smith