ILL-JUDGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-judged mean? 

• ILL-JUDGED (adjective)
  The adjective ILL-JUDGED has 1 sense:

1. not given careful consideration

  Familiarity information: ILL-JUDGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL-JUDGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not given careful consideration

Synonyms:

ill-considered; ill-judged; improvident; shortsighted

Context example:

an ill-judged attempt

Similar:

imprudent (not prudent or wise)

 Context examples 

It seemed to him a very ill-judged measure.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Her coming there was the most unfortunate, the most ill-judged thing in the world!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I knew him to be a very good sort of man, and I thought well of his daughter—better than she deserved, for, with a most obstinate and ill-judged secrecy, she would tell nothing, would give no clue, though she certainly knew all.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Once only, when she had been grieving over the last ill-judged, ill-fated walk to the Cobb, bitterly lamenting that it ever had been thought of, he burst forth, as if wholly overcome—"Don't talk of it, don't talk of it," he cried.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That Miss Crawford should endeavour to secure a meeting between him and Mrs. Rushworth, was all in her worst line of conduct, and grossly unkind and ill-judged; but she hoped he would not be actuated by any such degrading curiosity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from—HEEP—and by—HEEP—fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries—gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Her name was not mentioned;—and there was so striking a change in all this, and such an ill-judged solemnity of leave-taking in his graceful acknowledgments, as she thought, at first, could not escape her father's suspicion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Had she tried to speak, or had she been conscious of half Mrs. Jennings's well-meant but ill-judged attentions to her, this calmness could not have been maintained; but not a syllable escaped her lips; and the abstraction of her thoughts preserved her in ignorance of every thing that was passing before her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)