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Recent Examples of improvident Going that route is improvident. Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022 Unsurprisingly, Peter proves to be nasty, brutish and improvident. Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022 The Flynn plea on Dec. 1, 2017 was improvident and should not have been accepted by the court. WSJ, 13 May 2018 Designed by the brilliant (if improvident) Donald McKay, the ship was 235 feet long with a main mast nearly 100 feet tall. Randall Fuller, WSJ, 19 July 2018 The Flynn plea on Dec. 1, 2017 was improvident and should not have been accepted by the court. WSJ, 13 May 2018 Thus, the improvident plea as drafted and signed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was defective on its face and should have been unacceptable by the court. WSJ, 13 May 2018 The history of emerging markets is full of imprudent investors as well as improvident borrowers. The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for improvident
Adjective
  • Knight was also cited on suspicion of careless operation of a vessel and violation of navigation rules in the 2019 incident, but the charges were dismissed in 2020, court records show.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
  • There is no place in our organization for such bias, grudge-holding, or careless voting.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • With this Republican trifecta in place comes the opportunity to pass a reconciliation bill that not only extends the Trump tax cuts but also addresses the economic fallout from the Biden administration’s reckless regulatory and spending spree.
    Stewart Whitson, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
  • These reckless cuts will rip vital support away from our veterans, seniors, students, and families recovering from disaster.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Griffin has in the past criticized Trump, but said during the event that the administration’s efforts to crack down on immigration and to cut wasteful government spending were good things.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025
  • While this page supports fiscal responsibility and eliminating wasteful spending, the latest moves have an ulterior motive.
    Orlando Sentinel and Chicago Tribune editorial boards, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But excluding foreign energy altogether from a national energy security strategy is shortsighted.
    Aldo Flores-Quiroga, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Every organization fires and reassigns personnel, but doing so based on time served rather than performance is shortsighted, particularly if workers later identified as essential cannot be quickly hired back.
    Mara Karlin, Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • To live in one of the storybook homes that populates New Orleans’s Garden District—with their extravagant ironwork and gingerbread detailing—is, in many ways, to reside within a piece of history.
    Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 2 May 2025
  • But instead of changing her appearance in any way, going undercover or at least wearing a cap and sunglasses à la Marvel, Emily stands with her extravagant outfit at night at the Trevi Fountain in the middle of Rome.
    Hannah Madlener, Glamour, 2 May 2025

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“Improvident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/improvident. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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