INJUDICIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does injudicious mean? 

• INJUDICIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective INJUDICIOUS has 1 sense:

1. lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise

  Familiarity information: INJUDICIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INJUDICIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise

Context example:

the result of an injudicious decision

Similar:

imprudent (not prudent or wise)

Derivation:

injudiciousness (the trait of being injudicious)

injudiciousness (lacking good judgment)

 Context examples 

It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive.

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

Which was injudicious, Trot, said my aunt, but well meant.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The two girls were more at a loss from being younger and in greater awe of their father, who addressed them on the occasion with rather an injudicious particularity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Of their terrible chief few details came out during the proceedings, and if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavoured to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known.

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

I felt it would be injudicious to confine her too much at first; so, when I had talked to her a great deal, and got her to learn a little, and when the morning had advanced to noon, I allowed her to return to her nurse.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In a general light, private theatricals are open to some objections, but as we are circumstanced, I must think it would be highly injudicious, and more than injudicious to attempt anything of the kind.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My pupil was a lively child, who had been spoilt and indulged, and therefore was sometimes wayward; but as she was committed entirely to my care, and no injudicious interference from any quarter ever thwarted my plans for her improvement, she soon forgot her little freaks, and became obedient and teachable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She could not but own that she should be very glad of a little tea, and Susan immediately set about making it, as if pleased to have the employment all to herself; and with only a little unnecessary bustle, and some few injudicious attempts at keeping her brothers in better order than she could, acquitted herself very well.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)