Adjective

(en adjective)

Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.

* 1711 , , The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker , volume 1.

Here Her Majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the Ministers and Readers.

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, year=1853 , author=Mary Elizabeth Braddon , title=Phantom Fortune , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘It was a most 'imprudent thing to go up Helvellyn in such weather,’ said Fräulein Müller, shaking her head gloomily as she ate her fish.}}

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, year=1864 , author=Jules Verne , title=Journey to the Interior of the Earth , chapter=3 citation , passage=My uncle, falling back into his absorbing contemplations, had already forgotten my imprudent' words. I merely say ' imprudent , for the great mind of so learned a man of course had no place for love affairs, and happily the grand business of the document gained me the victory.}}

Adjective

(en-adj)

Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.

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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish , but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

Resembling or characteristic of a fool.

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*(Aeschylus)

*:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .