as in insanity
lack of good sense or judgment
you find both wisdom and unwisdom in his writings, and it's your job to discover which is which
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Recent Examples of unwisdom
Even at the outset of Covid-19, the unwisdom of lockdowns guided mainstream epidemiology.
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Phillip W. Magness and Peter C. Earle, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2021
Dog-dad Daryl proves the unwisdom of bringing his pet to work and ends up crawling through a crack in the rocks to chase his pup.
—Richard Rys, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
In recent years, experts have tried many ways to convince vaccine-refusers the unwisdom of their choice.
—David Brown, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
Phillip W. Magness and Peter C. Earle, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2021
Dog-dad Daryl proves the unwisdom of bringing his pet to work and ends up crawling through a crack in the rocks to chase his pup.
—Richard Rys, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
In recent years, experts have tried many ways to convince vaccine-refusers the unwisdom of their choice.
—David Brown, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwisdom
Noun
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Way was nothing short of a force of nature in the role, bringing a mix of mania, terror and insanity to a character that felt straight out of the comic books he’s written.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
21 July 2025
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Kraepelin hoped that schizophrenia would eventually reveal itself to be a disease like neurosyphilis, which was then responsible for a large portion of the cases of insanity in psychiatry wards.—
Rachel Aviv,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
Noun
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Mid-season madness has officially started for the Colorado Rapids, less than a week before the MLS secondary transfer window opens.—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
19 July 2025
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Will the young girl in Horas Extras succumb to total madness?—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
17 July 2025
Noun
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In uncertain markets, relevance, simplicity and clear value win.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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The essence of the review is evaluation, which of course doesn’t imply the crude simplicity of a thumbs-up or thumbs-down.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
24 July 2025
Noun
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Beneath the absurdity and punchlines lies a serious critique of how violence is packaged, sold, and consumed in American media.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
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During the performance that shot her to fame earlier this month, Fan laid bare the absurdity facing many victims of domestic violence in the country.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
27 July 2025
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Much odder is that red states aren’t taking the blue states up on an arrangement that to some degree erects a fence around economic foolishness.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Such utter foolishness, by another blind leading the blind, liberal democrat.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
10 June 2025
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“Unwisdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwisdom. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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