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imprudent

/im-prood-nt/US // ɪmˈprud nt //UK // (ɪmˈpruːdənt) //

轻率,不谨慎,轻率的,不慎

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.without much thought

Examples

  • I now realize that this discussion was imprudent for many factors, including the age of the students, my demeanor and insensitivity.

  • Marine One’s crew was saying that bad visibility could make it imprudent to chopper to the cemetery.

  • It is nevertheless imprudent to fight illegal immigration with laws targeting otherwise law-abiding residents with arrest.

  • Can there be any doubt that it is imprudent to kill alleged traitors without even bothering to convict them?

  • The parents were well to do, and in due time forgave the imprudent match.

  • Bluebeard, you know, had a whole museum of them—as that imprudent little last wife of his found out to her cost.

  • His life and conduct subsequently was extremely imprudent and reprehensible.

  • The cubicula were also defaced, their symmetry injured, and their construction endangered by similar imprudent excavations.

  • The story is characteristic of the gallant but imprudent man who played so great a part in Irish history.