Example sentences for: ill-considered

How can you use “ill-considered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • flame an ill-considered, insulting e-mail or Usenet retort.

  • The Indians, however, resented his refusal to consult them, and rioted over an ill-considered partition of Bengal.

  • However--and you may choose to call me a smug foreigner who is also sensitive to "smugness" on the part of the superpower--I thought it self-congratulatory, ill-considered, and decidedly anecdotal.

  • Gore voted in favor of a solar satellite program that the environmental movement opposed (according to the LCV, because it was "costly and grandiose"); Gore voted against the National Energy Act of 1978 , which the LCV favored because it included a lot of conservation measures, but which some environmentalists opposed, because it also decontrolled natural gas prices; and Gore voted to create the Synthetic Fuels Corp. , an ill-considered and short-lived alternative fuel venture opposed by environmentalists because it involved strip-mining.

  • A flame is not distinguished by its being ill-considered: a flame is usually insulting or provocative (in the sense of causing irritation); it can also be simply persisting incessantly and rabidly on a topic others find uninteresting (or past the point of interest).


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