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ill-advised

adjectiveC1neutral

Ill-advised means unwise, and likely to end badly. An ill-advised remark.

It is a polite way of saying somebody should have known better. Ill-advised suggests bad counsel, though usually nobody advised anything at all.

Definitions of ill-advised

  1. 1adjectiveill-advisedUnwise, and likely to end badly.C1

    “The ill-advised email was sent to four hundred people.”

ill-advised is a quality.

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