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Recent Examples of injudicious So maybe use the feelings aroused by your sister-in-law’s thoughtless, certainly injudicious, possibly naughty remark as an opportunity to rise above. James Parker, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024 What The Meng Episode Means (1): Is Huawei A Tool of The CCP? Meng’s release, and injudicious remarks, do not bode well for Huawei. George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021 Pam Anderson wasn’t a bad girl, per se, just a bit injudicious. John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022 In a world like this one — where crisis is constant and power seems increasingly concentrated in a few injudicious hands — can words and art really matter? Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022 Liverpool committed some injudicious and unnecessary fouls. New York Times, 28 May 2022 His declaration on July Fourth that the worst of the Covid-19 nightmare was over now appears just as injudicious as his pledge that there would be a safe and deliberate pullout from Afghanistan. Stephen Collinson and Shelby Rose, CNN, 29 Aug. 2021 Yet Rollins is the one being accused of being injudicious. BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021 The protests began in June over another legal issue: legislation allowing the extradition of criminal defendants into the opaque and notoriously injudicious judicial system of the mainland. Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injudicious
Adjective
  • But the hotel's logs also illustrate that the hotel was aware there were days near to when Alexis Williams used the pool that the water showed no chlorine or bromine and improper pH levels, the lawsuit contends.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 31 July 2025
  • Common violations for all six restaurants with scores under 80 included improper storage of food, food that was stored above the proper temperature, and unlabelled food or cleaning supplies, among other sanitary violations.
    Samara Gerstle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • An internal investigation found no evidence of inappropriate behavior with students, and McGann resigned from Lewisville ISD in May 2023, FitzPatrick said.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2025
  • After further studies and community meetings, city planners found three intersections to be inappropriate and dropped them from the plan.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • The upshot is that trying to sidestep the riddle of how to cope with AI’s compassionate intelligence is imprudent.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Prevost has already had a showbiz publicist offer to represent him, and a journalist stop by post-interview to give him tips on what is imprudent to say on live TV—such as his imminent travel plans.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Hegseth’s indiscreet texts also pose serious intelligence risks.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • If this text had been received by someone hostile to American interests—or someone merely indiscreet, and with access to social media—the Houthis would have had time to prepare for what was meant to be a surprise attack on their strongholds.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Ultimately, the film hammers home that this klutzy, tactless new man in town is first and foremost a voyeur — which is where most of the taboo shattering comes in.
    Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
  • Tapper believes conservatives were proven correct in their harsh and at times tactless assessments of Biden’s condition, which clearly worsened in 2023 after his son Hunter faced the possibility of a prison sentence when a plea deal on tax and gun charges fell apart.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Becoming less user-friendly seems unwise at this point in human history.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 10 July 2025
  • As such, the notion of the Lakers committing to James at a max-salary level beyond this season was clearly seen internally as unwise.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Lapid trades in indelicate satire for indelicate times — Y at one point literally and lavishly licks his wealthy benefactor’s gleaming knee-high boots — so these grisly verses at first seem a typically blunt caricature of Israeli nationalism at its most ruthless.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 May 2025
  • If any lawsuit ends up in court, a judge or jury will have to decide if an indelicate social media posting is worth more than $500,000 for the bereaved of Sade Robinson.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025

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“Injudicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injudicious. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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