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Recent Examples of injudicious 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
Adjective
  • The prosecutor will ultimately decide whether the parents will be charged with improper storage and safekeeping of firearms or other potential crimes, Cappetto noted.
    Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • However, there is consumer protection for defective merchandise or an improper charge.
    Mary Luquette, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Production on the star's prior film, Being Mortal, was suspended by Searchlight Pictures in 2022 after a staffer filed a complaint against actor Bill Murray, alleging inappropriate behavior.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • While Roblox has filters and moderation, kids can still be exposed to inappropriate language, scams, or unsafe conversations.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Huger was ultimately charged with a DUI and DWI, 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.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The upshot is that trying to sidestep the riddle of how to cope with AI’s compassionate intelligence is imprudent.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • For instance, an officer or insurance adjuster might claim your lack of footwear contributed to reckless or careless driving, and the matter could even be brought up in court or during an insurance review.
    Georgea Kovanis, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This Earth sign can be quite the perfectionist, preferring order and discernment over anything remotely vague and careless.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Residents complained to the British press about the associated inconvenience, recounting road closures (leading to, gasp, wet crops), bad American driving, and an indiscreet Secret Service presence.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Hegseth’s indiscreet texts also pose serious intelligence risks.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Tapper believes conservatives were proven correct in their harsh and at times tactless assessments of Biden’s condition, which clearly worsened in 2023 after his son Hunter faced the possibility of a prison sentence when a plea deal on tax and gun charges fell apart.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
  • Ultimately, the film hammers home that this klutzy, tactless new man in town is first and foremost a voyeur — which is where most of the taboo shattering comes in.
    Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • For many years, Tariffs were allowed to be used against us by our uncaring and unwise Politicians.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 30 Aug. 2025
  • For many years, Tariffs were allowed to be used against us by our uncaring and unwise Politicians.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Lapid trades in indelicate satire for indelicate times — Y at one point literally and lavishly licks his wealthy benefactor’s gleaming knee-high boots — so these grisly verses at first seem a typically blunt caricature of Israeli nationalism at its most ruthless.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 May 2025
  • If any lawsuit ends up in court, a judge or jury will have to decide if an indelicate social media posting is worth more than $500,000 for the bereaved of Sade Robinson.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025

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“Injudicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injudicious. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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