ill-considered
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Decades ago, another youthful big-city mayor ran an ill-considered campaign for governor, finishing a distant fourth and failing to muster even double-digit support.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
It was FDR’s ill-considered decision three years earlier to move the date—then observed on the last Thursday of November—that sparked Congress’s action.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
These qualities often result in impetuous and ill-considered actions and decisions.’
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2025
They dedicate enormous time and resources to sending a reporter to Brown University to stick a microphone in a 19-year-old's face, so they'll say a slightly ill-considered thing.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024
I practically spat on the floor, which would have horrified Elisabet more than the ill-considered use of twenty million dollars.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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