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unwise

[ uhn-wahyz ]

/ ʌnˈwaɪz /

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adjective, un·wis·er, un·wis·est.

not wise; foolish; imprudent; lacking in good sense or judgment: an unwise choice; an unwise man.

Origin of unwise

before 900; Middle English; Old English unwīs. See un-¹, wise¹

OTHER WORDS FROM unwise

un·wise·ly, adverb un·wise·ness, noun

Words nearby unwise

unwind, unwinking, unwinnable, unwired, unwisdom, unwise, unwish, unwished, unwished-for, unwit, unwitnessed

Example sentences from the Web for unwisely

The law caught up with him; he was unwisely evasive about exactly which drugs he sold.

The Weirdest Story About a Conservative Obsession, a Convicted Bomber, and Taylor Swift You Have Ever Read |David Weigel |August 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Unwisely, he took a shortcut and so missed the impassable Cabora Bassa cataracts blocking the river.

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? The Victorian Explorer at 200 |Tim Jeal |March 19, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Some may be unwisely going into debt or funding the purchases with credit, but millions more are not.

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Corzine undoubtedly and most unwisely encouraged risk at MF Global.

Wall Street Is Shrinking |Zachary Karabell |November 3, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

He owned a great many words and was willing to part with them freelybut not unwisely.

Sudden Jim |Clarence Budington Kelland
Occasionally persons convalescing from serious sickness where anodynes were taken, unwisely cling to them long after recovery.

A Practical Physiology |Albert F. Blaisdell
Think well on it, you who have so extravagantly and not unwisely delivered yourself on flounces and ruffles.

The Book of Khalid |Ameen Rihani
You have most unwisely, through your minister, interfered in the internal administration of the affairs of that country.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849 |Various
They did not tell the captain of their promise, and he, most unwisely, refused to give the natives anything.

The Long White Cloud |William Pember Reeves

British Dictionary definitions for unwisely

unwise

/ (ʌnˈwaɪz) /

adjective

lacking wisdom or prudence; foolish

Derived forms of unwise

unwisely, adverb unwiseness, noun