ill-judged

In 2006 an ill-judged raid by Hezbollah across the tense and highly militarised border killed and captured Israeli soldiers.

Contentious military adventures targeting Russian mercenaries look an ill-judged risk that could jeopardise all the diplomatic goodwill and economic returns that Ukraine hopes to gain from its broad-based positive sub-Saharan strategy.

Instead, they imploded in an ill-judged attempt at aggression.

In a separate statement on X, he said he had used "ill-judged & emotional language".

"We all know January is the worst month for retail - this is an ill-judged, ill-considered campaign at the worst possible time."