(a.) Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(2) It was considered unwise to treat amenorrhea with combined estrogens and progestagens because metrorrhagia ensued.
(3) Some of the ones they've sent to the European parliament, one of them got sent to prison , others had to send back a lot of money because they all believed what they were saying about the Brussels gravy train and rather unwisely tried to take advantage of it.
(4) Mentioning those values may have been deemed unwise, given the hyper-secularised culture of the new Länder .
(5) There is serious concern that some physicians may be unwisely abandoning well tested treatment methods because of the premature dissemination of early results of some trials.
(6) For the purpose of developmental evaluation of growing children and the nutritional assessment of individuals or populations, reliance on current North American standards for size, maturational timing, body fatness or osseous development may be unwise not only with respect to various African, Asiatic and Pacific populations but often with respect to adults and children in North America.
(7) The ACF’s chief executive, Kelly O’Shanassy, said: “The last federal budget was widely seen as unfair and unwise, cutting funding for science and environment.
(8) Since approximately half of the persons with contact allergy to neomycin will also react to gentamicin, it seems unwise to treat such patients with other intravenous aminoglycosides that are closely related chemically.
(9) Stephen King, the chief global economist at HSBC, the former Goldman Sachs economist Gavyn Davies and Roger Farmer, a professor of economics at the University of California, told MPs on the Treasury select committee that it would be unwise to embark on a large-scale spending spree to boost growth while government debt remained high.
(10) However, because of the biases associated with screening it would be unwise to advocate a nationwide programme until the results of the controlled trials now in progress are available.
(11) We believe it is unwise to discharge asthmatics from hospital until the diurnal variation in their peak flow is below 20%.
(12) David Davis, the leading Conservative rightwing MP, said it was unwise to build a policy on a single case, but claimed that as many as one or two in 100 parents were having an extra child due to the prospect of child benefit.
(13) We live in an age of confident political predictions that are repeatedly proven to be unwise, but this was an outcome that was never in serious doubt.
(14) However, it appears unwise to categorically refute the repetition of congenital toxoplasmosis in siblings.
(15) This may never happen, but it would be unwise to bet that way.
(16) He did a good job of helping Manchester City and Sheffield United out of the doldrums, but perhaps unwisely left the former when a return to Everton became possible, explaining at the time that City felt like an affair whereas Everton was a marriage.
(17) Resolution is needed of the non-health-related problems--including confidentiality and the possible loss of job, insurance, and friends--that make it difficult or unwise to advocate widespread screening for antibody to the AIDS virus at this point.
(18) Banks said May was unwise to reject the help offered by Farage, especially given his close relationship with Bannon, who ran the rightwing Breitbart news website before going to work for Trump.
(19) But it would be unwise for Labour's stance on the government's proposals to suggest we are conceding rather than contesting the reform territory.
(20) Drawing a link with DPT was especially unwise because Osborne had previously promised the new measure would force technology companies to unwind their complex tax structures which “ abuse the trust of the British people ”.
Wise
Definition:
(v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
(v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.
(v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.
(v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.
(v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(3) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
(4) But Zambelis added: "Whatever rebel government emerges, China already has a place in the country business-wise.
(5) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
(6) At the hearing, committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, praised the secret service as "wise, very professional men and women", and called it shocking that so many of the agency's employees were involved in the scandal.
(7) The acid-mediated Z form binds ethidium more weakly than its B counterpart, and the ethidium induced Z to B conversion occurs in a step-wise (non-allosteric) fashion without the requirement of a threshold concentration.
(8) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(9) He has to grow up and wise up to the fact that people at West Brom have supported him right from the beginning of his career.
(10) In an attempt to show the public and cabinet colleagues that money being ring-fenced from Treasury cuts will be spent wisely, Mitchell said he wanted to know whether money spent at agencies such as the World Bank and the UN matched up to the government's anti-poverty objectives and delivered real benefits.
(11) The rate constants involved in the step-wise dissociation, process were obtained.
(12) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
(13) Two new bifunctional reagents suited for the step-wise cross-linking of cysteine and lysine residues in proteins are described.
(14) The correction of hallux varus must be performed in a well planned, step-wise method.
(15) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
(16) Concentrations of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime were measured by Andrews and Wise in blister fluids, in ascites and pleural fluid by us.
(17) Given a choice between placating the Freedom Caucus and placating Donald Trump, Ryan is wisely choosing self-preservation with the former.
(18) San Antonio wisely takes a timeout hoping to cool him down.
(19) Crozier has had time to play with since he arrived, but the question is whether he has used his first year wisely to build for the future.
(20) After different time intervals following a single or course-wise administration of the compound the level of total lipids was determined in the muscles and liver of the mice, and of the total lipids, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, cholesterol, fatty acids and 11-oxycorticosteroids levels in the blood serum of rabbits and of the bile acids content in the vesical bile of these animals.