Synonym: foolish, irrational, senseless, unreasonable, unsound. Antonym: wise. Similar words: unwisely, unwind, run wild, unwieldy, unwinding, unwitting, unwittingly, unwillingly. Meaning: adj. 1. showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom 2. not appropriate to the purpose.
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121. Perhaps it was unwise of him to blame just one religion for trying to mark out urban territory; in recent memory, one British city (Belfast) had no-go areas for people of the "wrong" Christian sect.
122. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
123. Proponents of limited government often focus both thought and rhetoric on the ways in which we are unfree,(sentencedict.com/unwise.html) on the unjust or unwise restrictions governments impose.
124. On the face of it , Mr Buffett's gambit looks both unwise and uncharacteristic.
125. If a man is thought -free , fancy-free , imagination -free , that which is not never for a long time appearing to be to him, unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him...
126. It's unwise to let up your students just before the examination.
127. She has put into the small, unwise head of the chipmunk the untutored fear of poisons.
128. He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable .
129. If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it, nor should we seek to invest with significance that which we cannot grasp.
130. In such a speculative market, it's unwise to bet your bottom dollar on stocks.
131. By now, everyone knows that it's unwise to post on Facebook those scantily clad photos of yourself doing tequila shots, because a potential employer might see it and get the wrong (or right) idea.
132. If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to untter it.
133. High rates of inflation create a tax on capital that makes much corporate investment unwise - at least if measured by the criterion of a positive real investment return to owners.
134. An unwise experiment which is often mentioned is Benjamin Franklin's famous kite in a understorm.
135. " Would you shrug your shoulders, and write the whole thing off as a "bad debt, " as an unwise entrepreneurial decision on the part of the warehouseman ?
136. Consumers may decide that it is unwise to entrust all their secrets to a single online firm such as Facebook, and decamp to less insular alternatives, such as Diaspora.
137. It would be unwise for the government to think of privatisation as a means of saving money.
138. An unwise experiment which is often mentioned is Benjamin Franklin's famous kite in a thunderstorm.
139. If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it.
140. It is unwise to go in with loss leader prices.
141. It is unwise for an outsider to obtrude his opinions into a family quarrel.
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