as in improper
showing poor judgment especially in personal relationships or social situations
lost a job because of an injudicious comment regarding the boss's toupee
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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.
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George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
In the end, Negative Psychology equates - for the public, at least - poor methodological habits, run-of-the-mill scientific sloppiness, innocent probabilistic error, injudicious hype, and outright fraud.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2014
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
George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
In the end, Negative Psychology equates - for the public, at least - poor methodological habits, run-of-the-mill scientific sloppiness, innocent probabilistic error, injudicious hype, and outright fraud.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2014
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
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“Injudicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injudicious. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.
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