imprudence
Example Sentences
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Critics say this "financial imprudence" has drained much of the country's economic resources and created unprecedented levels of debt that have crippled the economy.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2023
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said investigators would seek to “determine whether or not there was failure to respect a rule or individual imprudence that led to the explosion.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023
“The events of these days show the imprudence of not having further diversified our energy sources and our suppliers in the last decades,” he said last week.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022
Correspondence showed they repeatedly rejected the information outright as rumor and excused it as an "imprudence."
From Fox News • Sep. 3, 2021
Miss Bingley saw all this likewise; and, in the imprudence of anger, took the first opportunity of saying, with sneering civility:
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
