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:

  • 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).

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

  • Partly because of our ability to spend without worrying about our childrens' education; partly because some advertising is aspirational, so that you push products that people will want to buy when they can afford to; and partly because of ill-considered assumptions about brand loyalty, in particular the idea that if you hook me on a particular kind of car or suit or beer at 25, you'll have me for life.

  • Flames are not any more ill-considered than all the rest of human communication, unless you are of a particularly pacifist philosophy that deems all acrimony ill considered.

  • 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.


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