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INJUDICIOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does injudiciously mean?
• INJUDICIOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb INJUDICIOUSLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: INJUDICIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an injudicious manner
Context example:
these intelligence tests were used injudiciously for many years
Antonym:
judiciously (in a judicious manner)
Pertainym:
injudicious (lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise)
Context examples
You will find she is some young lady who has had a misunderstanding with her friends, and has probably injudiciously left them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
To her she was most injudiciously indulgent.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I did not tell him how urgent the danger was, for I knew that he could do no good here, but I sent the truth to the girl’s father, and he very injudiciously communicated it to Godfrey.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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