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ill-considered

[il-kuhn-sid-erd] / ˈɪl kənˈsɪd ərd /




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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

We are granted only so many vacations in this life, and it might seem ill-considered to spend one of them watching the Blue Man Group in an Egyptian-themed hotel in the Nevadan desert.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

Raza Husain KC, barrister for Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori, who brought the complaint, told the court banning the group would be "ill-considered" and an "authoritarian abuse" of power.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 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

She was a child of the working class who, through ill-considered choices and circumstance, slipped into the welfare class and had to fight her way out.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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