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INJUDICIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does injudiciously mean? 

INJUDICIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb INJUDICIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an injudicious mannerplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


INJUDICIOUSLY (adverb)


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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