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unwise

If something is unwise, then it is not smart or wise.

unwise

showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom an unwise investor is soon impoverished (= inexpedient) not appropriate to the purpose

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Simple sentences

It would be unwise, not to say stupid, of you to quit your first job after only six months.
She ignored him, which proved unwise.
I felt that the plan was unwise.
That would be unwise.

Movie subtitles

It is unwise to tarry.
It was unwise to replace a professional sailor like Mr Fryer with a relative novice?
Also, it would be unwise of us. to permit the existence of anyone who cannot be trusted.
I'm sure Elizabeth and June will back me up when I say I am going to deliver, on behalf of all wretched naval wives, a word of warning to Maureen, who has been unwise enough to decide to join our ranks.
The government feels it would be unwise to go on with this play.
That was unwise.
Mr. Craster has been unwise enough to interfere with plans of mine.
Unwise, Holly.
Unwise.
It would be unwise for a man to know he is not to go while a man working at his side is among the fortunate few.
I take it you believe the order was unwise.
Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.
It may be unwise, but there's no other way. I'll be forced to take action myself.
Such concentration is unwise but hardly insane.
He doesn't think that we know, but it's unwise to cross my path.
There has seldom been a man so unwise, so headstrong but he could see the necessity of keeping friends and not making enemies at court.
Before we have definite news that is unwise. John Goronwy Jones, please, sir.
Unwise, Albert.
Very unwise.
That would be most unwise, Ivo, most unwise.
He's young and unwise.
We feel that it would be unwise and unkind to submit you to surgery now.
Now, darling, if you think it's unwise, I'll understand.
To go on living, one must be occasionally unwise.
That would be very unwise.
Well, I'm afraid that sending that cable was rather unwise of you.
That's most unwise of you.
Unwise, Holly. - And Anna.
You shall have letters from me to my own son George on your behalf. to meet you on the way. Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.
Now, as to the injuries, Patron, we are poor, but I shall work all my life to pay for what this, this unwise animal has done today.
It's unwise!
It would be unwise of you even to entertain the notion of an alliance with anyone but me.
No, I'll find him tonight, he has to know I have more information. and that it would be unwise to hurt us.

News and current affairs

To cause a significant current evil in order to avoid a possible future danger when our knowledge is limited and our judgments uncertain is, Greenspan believes, unwise.
Even in those circumstances, war might well have been unwise compared to a policy of containment.
This practice is also unwise.
As with any creditor who makes an unwise investment, the banks and pension funds should pay the price.
Iran's leaders, though, would be unwise to proceed with an unconstrained nuclear program and discount the possibility of US military action.
Both seem unwise and unlikely now.
Yet this pressure is unwise, and somewhat hypocritical.
This is politically unwise and economically dangerous.
But generalizing from these exceptions is unwise.
Moreover, the model is unwise to the extent that tissue donors could block the development of knowledge and applications.
It may be unwise, though, because the knowledge and applications over which they retain control may have implications for other diseases.
The unfair and unwise elements of these models nonetheless suggest a solution that is both fair and wise: a tissue tax.
Seeking dialogue with North Korea immediately after its missile tantrum and nuclear brinkmanship is unwise and impractical.
Yet followers of world affairs would be unwise to consign colonialism to the proverbial dustbin of history, for it remains a factor in understanding our world's problems and dangers.
Foreign borrowing can enable consumers and governments to live beyond their means for a while, but reliance on foreign capital is an unwise strategy.
But to dismiss them would be unwise, because their utopian aspirations are based on genuine and legitimate anxieties.
And given that the Uighur bastion of Xinjiang is close to China's borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US was unwise to raise Chinese hackles in this way.
But efforts to block technological change have been futile in the past, and they would be unwise today.
Yet in the realm of transatlantic relations, as is true globally, it is unwise to expect too much from a single man, whatever his exceptional qualities.
It would be unwise to assume that, with the initial hike now behind us, systemic risk has somehow disappeared.
The status quo is that the Chinese government has not challenged Japan's de facto control of the islands, so further action to force China's hand would be extremely unwise.
It was unwise to attach the map in a note verbale responding to a joint submission by Vietnam and Malaysia to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in May 2009.
But it certainly was unwise to allow a junior official to shout and wag his finger at Obama at one of the key Copenhagen meetings.
Moreover, starting a bilateral confrontation is unwise.
Indeed, given the hard bargains that China has been driving during Putin's desperate search for alternative buyers, threatening to cut exports to Europe has proven to be an exceedingly unwise tactic.

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