Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.

(countable) An imprudent act.

* {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences , he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Francois Coppee, title=Ten Tales, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=S.C. Hill, title=Three Frenchmen in Bengal, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences . }}

* {{quote-book

, year=1906 – 1921 , author= , title= , volume=1 , chapter=Encounter , passage=He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.}}

Noun

Lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity.

* Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute -

* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 151:

Reporting from Vietnam in 1945, he may have been the first person to assert the extreme unwisdom of trying to restore French colonialism with British troops.