IMPRUDENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imprudently mean? 

• IMPRUDENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb IMPRUDENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an imprudent manner

  Familiarity information: IMPRUDENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPRUDENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an imprudent manner

Context example:

imprudently, he downed tools and ran home to make his wife happy

Antonym:

prudently (in a prudent manner)

Pertainym:

imprudent (not prudent or wise)

 Context examples 

Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and started for the Temple to see my husband.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He imprudently puts himself into the power of the young man and his older associate.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had allowed her, (imprudently, as it has since turned out,) at her earnest desire, to go to Bath with one of her young friends, who was attending her father there for his health.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I had certainly acted imprudently.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He took notice of a general tradition, that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that many ages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these Yahoos engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be yinhniamshy (or aborigines of the land), because of the violent hatred the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been aborigines, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agility of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The brother, on his arrival in England, had imprudently placed himself in the power of Latimer and of his associate, whose name was Wilson Kemp—a man of the foulest antecedents.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)