(n.) Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The labour data suggests that the recovery is ticking over quite nicely, though it would be foolhardy to get complacent given that the risks facing the economy are skewed to the downside."
(2) It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050.
(3) E.ON was the only one brave – or foolhardy – enough to put its head above the parapet and make a formal application to the government.
(4) Plainly the system has faults, but seeking to upend things at a time when the public can see no imminent need for change might be considered brave if not foolhardy.
(5) It would be foolhardy to offer an inflexible step-care protocol for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, given its heterogeneity and our uncertainty about its pathogenesis.
(6) But for me to say ‘this is what we’re going to do’ would be very foolhardy in the first place and, secondly, dishonest because the truth is I don’t know.” He couched it perfectly, especially for those who were with him on the training camp in Miami before the World Cup when, barely a day after one of his predecessors, Sven-Goran Eriksson, stated there was “absolutely no way” England could win it, the manager abandoned all restraint and fell into the trap.
(7) Is it foolhardy of the younger Joe to hang on to the life he knows, even when the future is warning him against it?
(8) It would be foolhardy for Iran to want to break out, they say, as there would be a high probability that its work would be discovered before it had made a single weapon.
(9) To throw that protection away in response to business demands without any plans to secure improvement in journalism is foolhardy and an insult to our local communities."
(10) "People thought we were extremely brave, or foolhardy," says Annie Hudson, Bristol social services divisional director for children, about her predecessor's decision to let in the cameras.
(11) The risk for Purnell is that his act of courage - or foolhardiness - will not pull the government down with him, but leave it standing but impotent, the cabinet weakened but intact, too strong to fall apart entirely even though too weak to command events.
(12) "[G]iven the deaths of 15 million people during the war, attempting to position 1918 as a simplistic, nationalistic triumph seems … foolhardy, not least because the very same tensions re-emerged to such deadly effect in 1939.
(13) Sending money to Washington and expecting central planners to send it back in a way that will grow jobs is foolhardy,” he said.
(14) Reviews are always somewhat retrospective in outlook; to write a review at the present time is especially foolhardy since developments in biology are such that totally new concepts can arise almost overnight, as it were.
(15) Actually using a bike as a means of getting from A to B along normal roads is still a matter for the brave and the foolhardy, and cyclists on the roads are a rare sight indeed.
(16) But flouting both simultaneously is for the foolhardy alone.
(17) It would be foolhardy to suggest we’re out of the woods yet, though, and share prices are likely to remain volatile for some time.” Markets have endured some of the worst volatility since the financial crisis amid fears over China’s slowing economy.
(18) Río Doce's willingness to go further than other local papers is not, however, foolhardy bravery.
(19) But at the moment, they are not recognised as anyone’s territory and we can sail legally, peacefully through these alleged 12-mile limits.” Conroy said while it would be “foolhardy” for the government to announce a freedom-of-navigation exercise in advance of it happening, Australia “should be prepared to defend the international system”.
(20) In what some have termed a foolhardy plan, others highly idealistic, the movement plans to reconstruct the city regardless of who wins the war.
Inadvisability
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that it is inadvisable for a single observer to judge BMD when studying routine X-ray studies of the peripheral skeleton.
(2) The use of bucolome in infants with hyperbilirubinaemia is inadvisable.
(3) Our experience supports the use of this flap for local hand and forearm coverage when local tissue is unavailable and skin grafting is deemed inadvisable.
(4) Driving to meet Steve Horton, a US tax accountant whose clients include bankers, entrepreneurs and high-flying American lawyers based in France, the taxi driver passes Fouquet's, the expensive restaurant where Sarkozy inadvisedly celebrated his own election victory, in company with pop star Johnny Hallyday, film star Jean Reno and high-flying businessmen, prompting the coining of the soubriquet President Bling Bling.
(5) Yet it would be inadvisable to ban them, because that would drive people with eating disorders further into the shadows and away from potential help, she said.
(6) However, because of the inability to augment iron absorption to compensate for blood loss, it would be inadvisable for the patient with a partial gastrectomy to take a high dosage of aspirin for long periods of time, unless aspirin-induced blood loss is measured and shown to be very low.
(7) Species differences make extrapolation inadvisable.
(8) It is concluded that routine administration of DDAVP to CABG patients is inadvisable because hemodynamic side effects are potentially dangerous and therapeutic benefit is highly unlikely.
(9) Its use should particularly be considered in patients to whom the administration of radiographic contrast material is inadvisable.
(10) The use of inhalation anaesthetics is therefore inadvisable during bronchoscopy in adults unless sufficient anaesthetic scavenging can be established.
(11) Although commercial test kits for detecting elevated levels of maternal serum AFP were approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1983, ACOG has opposed their routine use on the grounds that the high incidence of false positive results makes it inadvisable to use the test in pregnant women who do not have access to high-quality follow-up tests and counseling.
(12) Contraindications include difficulty in establishing an adequate pneumoperitoneum; acute peritonitis, ileus, or intestinal obstruction; and inadvisability of penumoperitoneum or Trendelenburg position.
(13) Thymus tissue which is not removed during the operation is one of the causes of recurrent myasthenia, while unjustified extension of the volume of the operation in nonneoplastic affection of the thymus is also inadvisable.
(14) The light microscopical diagnoses of "reticulum cell sarcoma" seems now inadvisable, since thhe majority of these cases, when examined by electron microscopy, were found to be "blast cell sarcomas", probably lymphoid in nature.
(15) There are occasions when intermaxillary fixation may be inadvisable, and in these instances external fixation techniques may be an appropriate means of immobilization.
(16) If a paramedian sternotomy is proved, simple reclosure is inadvisable.
(17) The use of ampicillin as a single agent for the treatment of pyelonephritis, however, is inadvisable.
(18) It is concluded that operation for unilateral cataract is inadvisable, if the vision of the fellow eye is good and contact lenses cannot be used, that the time between operations for bilateral cataract should be as short as possible, and that the use of contact lenses is essential.
(19) Results are presented indicating the inadvisability of using lower animals as test subjects with the aim of predicting toxicity for higher animals.
(20) We present a case in which ovarian function was annuled through radiotherapy, instead of resorting to the most commonly used oophorectomy, since the patient's severe respiratory dysfunction made surgery inadvisable.