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Example sentences for "injudicious"

Lexicographically close words:
injection; injections; injector; injectors; injoy; injudiciously; injunction; injunctions; injunctive; injure
  1. Thus, chiefly in consequence of injudicious management, it is made the most critical period of childhood.

  2. A blister should never be applied for any infantile disease, except when ordered by a medical man, as its injudicious use might greatly aggravate the complaint.

  3. Not at all,' said Claude, 'only an injudicious attempt to put a little life into a tortoise.

  4. Lady Rotherwood's injudicious caresses helped to make her more affected; other faults had grown up for want of sufficient control, but this last was principally Esther's work.

  5. Narrow-minded pedantry and injudicious ignorance often rush in, to responsibilities and duties that angels might well tremble to assume--the moulding for good or evil, the flexile souls of children during the most vital years of their lives.

  6. To do otherwise is both injudicious and unjust.

  7. What surprises me most in this respect is the injudicious criticism of polygamy by some Europeans.

  8. By this injudicious proceeding he caused no little embarrassment to the Colonial Secretary, and proved his utter want of experience in diplomatic affairs.

  9. It was possible that she had led him on to talk about the affair with injudicious freedom, and now she had met Greythorpe and seemed desirous of cultivating his acquaintance.

  10. Then you must allow for a reaction against the injudicious course I took.

  11. The reason is perhaps not far to seek, since, being in the vulgar tongue, they appealed to a wider and less learned audience, before whom it might have been injudicious to utter too strong an opinion on questions of church and state.

  12. These constituted the first attempt in English at writing original eclogues in Vergilian metre, and the injudicious experiment has not, I believe, been repeated.

  13. Many injudicious words, many minor weaknesses of conduct, are forgotten.

  14. Her Court was a model of quiet dignity and decorum, singularly free from all the atmosphere of intrigue and from all suspicion of injudicious or unworthy favouritism.

  15. Her letters of congratulation, or sympathy, or encouragement on public occasions scarcely ever failed in their effect and never contained an injudicious word.

  16. M416) The mayor, who owed his election to pressure of parliament, and who was on that account never really popular in the city, unwittingly assisted the royal cause by another act of injudicious meddling.

  17. To ride a kicker in the hunting-field is highly injudicious and unfair.

  18. Nothing could possibly be more injurious or injudicious than this detestable operation.

  19. It is the grief of this House, that, by the ill policy of a late injudicious administration, America has been driven into the contemplation of them.

  20. Advise them to discontinue that injudicious liberality; it spoils us: it causes us to be discontented with full wages, and to laugh in the face of a customer who proposes to pay us our legal due.

  21. Sequels are never successful, and having finished off the world comfortably in his first book, we think him injudicious to try the experiment of another.

  22. The report will, without doubt, confirm all that our leading physicians say as to the evils of injudicious burial.

  23. The scheme has met with some enemies, and injudicious promoters of the system have not proved the least of them.

  24. It may be as well to point out here that the greatest harm Edinburgh did to Burns was that it gathered round him a number of impatient and injudicious admirers who could not understand that poetry was not to be forced.

  25. Adair, a warm but somewhat injudicious admirer of the poet's genius.

  26. The British commander could hardly have taken a more injudicious step.

  27. Such were the results of injudicious patronage.

  28. Her career has stopt short by the injudicious bringing her out in a vile new Tragedy, and for a third character in a stupid old one,--the Earl of Essex.

  29. I think it was injudicious to mix stories avowedly colour'd by fiction with the sad true statements from the parliamentary records, etc.

  30. Had Dost Mohammed remained at large, any harm he could have done would have been inferior to that occasioned by the injudicious measures of the British agents.

  31. But stubborn facts soon refuted the well-intended but injudicious falsehoods, propounded to maintain the moral courage of the nation.

  32. But far more injudicious is his fantastic remorse and the supposed vision of the Furies in the last scene.

  33. The injudicious use of a language in which he did not write with facility, and which is not very well adapted, at the best, to metaphysical disquisition, has doubtless increased the perplexity into which he has thrown his readers.

  34. But an injudicious taste, and an excessive fondness for a style which the public was rapidly abandoning, that of allegorical personification, prevented their powers from being effectively displayed.

  35. Scott's subjects are injudicious in descending to.

  36. And this was only a girl, pushed, by nagging and injudicious curbing, after a course of equally imprudent liberty, to take her own way.

  37. That a mother's solicitude should be taunted thus, by the very child she is trying to shield from the effects of her injudicious good-nature!


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