What's the difference between improvident and shortsighted?
Improvident
Definition:
(a.) Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was Lindsay's misfortune to serve as mayor of America's biggest city at the height of the urban crisis brought on by the coincidence of racial conflict, labour unrest, rashly generous liberal reforms, fiscal improvidence and political confusion.
(2) The question this raised for aficionados of supreme court procedure is whether the court might use a device called "dismissing a case as improvidently granted".
(3) A minimal theoretical training is essential in order to prevent delusions caused by an improvident autodidactic approach.
Shortsighted
Definition:
(a.) Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
(a.) Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
(a.) Having little regard for the future; heedless.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the bigger question is why in a shortsighted attempt to reduce greenhouse gases by a tiny amount (diesel cars do more miles to the gallon) the risks were ignored, and customers persuaded that diesel cars were actually greener.
(2) Lech Walesa, the first democratically elected president of post-communist Poland, has criticised David Cameron for acting "irrationally and shortsightedly" over immigration from eastern Europe.
(3) They are costly, they are shortsighted and create a cycle of despair and dependence,” he said.
(4) In a letter to the Sunday Times , signed by academics, politicians and business leaders, they warn the proposals are shortsighted, coming when the loss of wildlife and habitats is ongoing, and evidence suggests many children are missing out on the benefits of spending time in nature.
(5) Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell described it as "both shortsighted and harmful to our long-term security interests".
(6) I never share the view that the Tories are an organised conspiracy, though they are doing some foolish and shortsighted things – as well as a few wicked ones.
(7) In this way of thinking, the FBI’s request is not just shortsighted and worldly but immoral.
(8) This stance was backed by the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, but not by the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, whose country will host the next G20 meeting, and who said on Friday that focusing only on economic growth was shortsighted.
(9) Some pundits will see the posts as indications of Trump’s shortsighted political impulses, but another possibility exists.
(10) Alistair Darling today delivered a cautious pre-election budget, ruling out "shortsighted" spending cuts in favour of securing a strong economic recovery.
(11) Victims should never feel ashamed to come forward and they deserve to be treated with respect and to receive the support they need.” David Rogers, who owns the mobile security company Copper Horse Solutions, said: “I think the Met chief’s comments are shortsighted.
(12) The film and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre called the lack of arts on the Ebacc "incredibly shortsighted" while the playwright Sir David Hare condemned the policy as "the most dangerous and far-reaching of the government's reforms".
(13) Second, by first misrepresenting the extent to which recent European migrants claim benefits, and then by refusing, for obvious and shortsighted political reasons, to release the underlying data until forced to by the media and parliament, the government has damaged its own case.
(14) How shortsighted not to make minor concessions that would put opponents in his debt.
(15) This is not only cruel but enormously shortsighted.
(16) "We are severely disappointed with Greg Hunt's shortsighted and ill-informed decision," he said.
(17) These people would be out of their depth in a paddling pool, and couldn’t be more unfit to run a modern political party The committee’s selfish, shortsighted ambition was encapsulated in its exclusion of Steven Woolfe from the leadership race, ostensibly on the technical basis of some papers being submitted through their ancient computer system 17 minutes late.
(18) Frankly, it is completely shortsighted and wrong to claim this G7 failed to deliver.
(19) It is an unsightly manoeuvre, one that comes off as grasping and shortsighted.
(20) Mary Creagh, Labour's shadow environment secretary, said: "This year's floods have shown how shortsighted the government was to cut investment in flood defences.