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What (who) is ill-advised - definition


ill-advised         
BOOK BY HISTORIAN ROBERT HUGH FERRELL
Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust
adj. ill-advised to + inf. (you would be ill-advised not to invite both of them)
ill-advised         
BOOK BY HISTORIAN ROBERT HUGH FERRELL
Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust
If you describe something that someone does as ill-advised, you mean that it is not sensible or wise.
They would be ill-advised to do this...
ADJ: oft ADJ to-inf
ill-advised         
BOOK BY HISTORIAN ROBERT HUGH FERRELL
Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust
¦ adjective not wise or prudent.
Derivatives
ill-advisedly adverb

Wikipedia

Ill-Advised
Ill-Advised: Presidential Health and Public Trust is a 1992 book by historian Robert Hugh Ferrell examining politically motivated cover-ups of serious medical issues afflicting U.S.
Examples of use of ill-advised
1. "The veto on this bill was ill–advised," agreed Sen.
2. Yet ill–advised linear extrapolations of earnings from previous years lead to wildly optimistic multiples.
3. Obey (D–Wis.) hates this "misbegotten, stupid, ill–advised" Iraq war.
4. Hal Rogers of Kentucky accused Democrats of an ill–advised and precipitous withdrawal‘‘ plan.
5. They described Mr Clarke‘s intervention as baffling, unhelpful and ill–advised.