How to Use unwise in a Sentence

unwise

adjective
Definition of unwisenext
Synonyms for unwisenext
  • It would be unwise to buy a house now.
  • But the schools and NCAA would be unwise to keep that money.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • But Cao thinks the move is unwise and goes to the other extreme.
    — Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Science | AAAS, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Attempting to time the ups and downs in the stock market is unwise.
    — Mark Zandi, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Many of his fouls are still unwise, even in that context.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Betting against him winning an MVP in the 2020s would not be unwise.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
  • Which makes this fight with the Freedom Caucus even more unwise.
    — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Who’s good and bad, and who’s good but unlucky or unwise, is always clear.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • For Kerr and Popovich, rising caseload numbers across the country made the prospect of a dinner out unwise.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • But his final thought that China in distress might be helped by the U.S. is unwise.
    — WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But Clarence Thomas has shown in his time on the Court that reflexive deference to them is unwise.
    — Adam J. MacLeod, National Review, 22 Oct. 2021
  • But building a contender around those tenets may prove unwise.
    — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • One of the replacement players made the unwise decision to snap pictures of the scene out the window.
    — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The only things standing in the way are unwise public policies.
    — Marie Fishpaw, National Review, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Jenkins added that the spot is also an unwise campaign move.
    — NBC News, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Dallas was undisciplined in the first and the Lightning took unwise penalties in the second.
    — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
  • After chasing the ball, Acevedo made the unwise decision to rush a throw to first base with the speedy Friedl running.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 30 Apr. 2023
  • On an off day in Colorado, the ace pitcher made the unwise decision to ride dirt bikes in the hills outside of Denver.
    — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
  • For some scholars who study civil-military affairs, the use of the Marines as backdrop to the speech was unwise.
    — Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • So there could be a silver lining to the Supreme Court’s unwise decision.
    — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • Doubling down on policies that have not succeeded in the past would be unwise.
    — Colin Grabow, National Review, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Last night in Wembley’s pouring rain, Gilmour showed why such a move might be unwise.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 19 June 2021
  • Owners brought replacement players to spring training in 1995 in an unwise move to break the union.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Using your time here wisely is never an unwise thing to do.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2024
  • There once was a time when broadcasting the decision to quit a job might have seemed unwise, or at least uncouth.
    — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021
  • To many, the idea of using an armed naval convoy to enter Houthi waters near Hodeidah is unwise.
    — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Paying $1,200 in cash would have been difficult, and putting the purchase on a credit card seemed unwise.
    — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • People like to know about the quirks of the individual who has gone – the jam-jar collection, the clashing clothes, the unwise taste for speed.
    — 1843, 21 May 2020
  • There is still time to convince the commission to walk back this unwise decision and not reopen the fishery this December.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Creating a more intrusive role for courts seems unwise, as courts do not participate in any of the three conditions for acceptable policy.
    — Washington Post, 9 July 2024

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