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injudicious | mispraise |

As an adjective injudicious

is showing poor judgement; not well judged.

As a verb mispraise is

(rare) to praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reasonoxford english dictionary , 3rd ed, 2002.

injudicious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
  • * 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , section 3, ยง 18:
    • By introducing, into any composition, personages and actions, foreign to each other, an injudicious author loses that communication of emotions,
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    • Synonyms

    * imprudent * unwise

    Antonyms

    * judicious

    Derived terms

    * injudiciously

    mispraise

    English

    Verb

    (misprais)
  • (rare) To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason.Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2002.
  • * 1623 , , The sermons of John Donne , Sermon 12 (Google preview):
    • [T]hough I spend my nights, and dayes, and thoughts, and spirits, and words, and preaching, and writing, upon Princes, and Judges, and Magistrates . . . I have not paid a farthing of my debt to God; I have not praised him, but I have praised them, till not only my selfe, but even they, whom I have so mispraised , are the worse in the sight of God, for my over-praising.
  • * 1845 , Morgan Rattler, "Touching Antony the Triumvir and Cicero the Orator," Fraser's Magazine (September), p. 326 (Google preview):
    • We look upon it not so much as a strangely overpraised, but as a mispraised composition. It is a torrent of abuse.
  • * 2010 , Paul F. O'Rourke (quoting ), Offerings to the Discerning Eye , Sue D'Auria (ed.), ISBN 9789004178748, p. 247 n.25 (Google preview):
    • Anaximander's interest in cosmogony has been vastly overestimated, and his achievements consistently mispraised .
  • (archaic) To slander, blame, or disparage.Oxford English Dictionary , 3rd ed., 2002.
  • * 1949 , , Matthew Arnold , ISBN 9780049280182, p. 106 (Google preview):
    • On hearing the Duke of Wellington mispraised he defends him, in a sonnet.

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