ill-informed

[ il-in-fawrmd ]

/ ˈɪl ɪnˈfɔrmd /

adjective

lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.

Origin of ill-informed

First recorded in 1815–25

Words nearby ill-informed

ill-fitting, ill-formed, ill-founded, ill-gotten, ill-gotten gains, ill-informed, ill-intentioned, ill-judged, ill-kempt, ill-looking, ill-mannered

Example sentences from the Web for ill-informed

The Hannity-esque delusion of a post-racial America is ill-informed at best and bigoted at worst.

‘Dear White People’: How An Ex-Publicist’s Twitter Became One of the Year’s Most Important Films |Marlow Stern |October 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
True, there certainly are plenty of ill-informed teenagers out there.

Paying Taxes and Going to Jail Like Adults; Teens Deserve the Right to Vote, Too |Jillian Keenan |October 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
During the primaries, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum popped off with sour, ill-informed comments on race-related issues.

Is Romney a Race Baiter? |John McWhorter |August 29, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Rush is a factor only to his ill-informed, albeit numerous listeners, and we should move on.

Uproar Over Limbaugh’s Sandra Fluke Attack Should End Because He Doesn’t Matter |Jesse Singal |March 14, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

A kid who comes across as arrogant or nasty or ill-informed about the college can trigger a negative interview report.

Do College Interviews Count? |Steve Cohen, Mike Muska |October 6, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
One thing I will say for that school, though—they was not such a ill-informed lot as the Automobile Service.

Believe You Me! |Nina Wilcox Putnam
Olivarez was too violent, too young, and too ill-informed to have any clear conception of the influence of these relations.

A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) |Leopold von Ranke
You are ill-informed; it is certain that this affair was negociated, and that it was much ad350vanced towards a conclusion.

The True History of The State Prisoner, commonly called The Iron Mask |George Agar Ellis
The study of ‘Gothic’ art and literature had been at first, as was inevitable, ill-informed.

The Victorian Age |William Ralph Inge
I will not even quarrel with him for being a tyrant at heart, lazy, ill-informed!'

Rudin |Ivan Turgenev

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ill-informed

adjective

Origin of ill-informed

Words nearby ill-informed

Example sentences from the Web for ill-informed