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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Recent Examples of injudicious
These injudicious, blunt-force tariffs do get undone almost as quickly as they are slapped on, thank heavens.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
So maybe use the feelings aroused by your sister-in-law’s thoughtless, certainly injudicious, possibly naughty remark as an opportunity to rise above.
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James Parker,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2024
Pam Anderson wasn’t a bad girl, per se, just a bit injudicious.
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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?
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Globe Staff,
BostonGlobe.com,
21 July 2022
Liverpool committed some injudicious and unnecessary fouls.
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New York Times,
28 May 2022
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
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.
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Stephen Collinson and Shelby Rose,
CNN,
29 Aug. 2021
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injudicious
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While the expiration of the enhanced ACA subsidies at the end of 2025 made insurance more expensive for millions of consumers, the HHS assistant secretary for planning and evaluation report cited efforts to crack down on improper signups.
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The agency is also asking visitors to the World Cup game or Fan Fest to report any unsafe or improper drone use to the FBI tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
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Murdaugh’s attorneys appealed the convictions, saying the trial was tainted by the county clerk Becky Hill’s inappropriate comments to jurors implying his guilt.
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Live streams and other unfiltered media can expose kids to risky or inappropriate content, so adult guidance is key.
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Additional charges included negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner, endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.
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To be fair, those imprudent claims were made without the benefit of seeing this evidence.
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Still, multitasking can lead to careless errors, irritability or burnout, so take it easy.
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Sell the two at much the same price, and careful investors end up holding careless risk.
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Smaller seats, less legroom, meals on a budget, and now someone whispering indiscreet sweet nothings to their lover in my ear.
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The one part of the paper that’ll have to worry most about hurt celebrity feelings, of course, is Page Six, the Post’s gleefully indiscreet gossip column.
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Your tactless or tactile uncles?
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This is the same Trump, after all, whose reaction to the shocking murder of beloved actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele was selfish and tactless, even for him.
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And given this context, Anthropic’s actions are viewed by many within Washington as not simply unwise, but actively antagonistic.
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For their part, do politicians and agency leaders like it when their pet projects are assessed by intelligence as unwise or infeasible?
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The ambience of the chat rooms is like that of Hooters: visually indelicate but discursively family-friendly.
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Martin-Cotten’s is an indelicate balance between out and out primal furies, parsed with flashes of vulnerability that seem as deeply felt as Martha’s self-loathing.
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“Injudicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injudicious. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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