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Meanings of improvident in inglês
espanhol
derrochador Not provident; not providing for the future.
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Examples for "ill-considered"
Examples for "ill-considered"
1
An ill-considered idea perhaps, but one put out there in good faith?
2
It was an ill-considered thing you did, but your intentions were good.
3
The crown had probably been set by his ill-considered flight in July.
4
The world is full of people eager to express baseless, ill-considered opinions.
5
The exhortation was ill-considered, and Rachel controlled a gesture of amicable impatience.
1
As the district judge stated, this protest was 'ill-judged in its form'.
2
A series of ill-judged acquisitions had left it saddled with heavy debts.
3
It was injudicious-miserablyill-judged in Dorrance not to acquaint you with this.
4
Now came the main and, on the part of Riall, ill-judged attack.
5
A fudge may simply be ill-judged; a differently worded fudge might work better.
Usage of improvident in inglês
1
Both were throughout life lacking in executive ability; both were financially improvident.
2
He was industrious but improvident; he made money and he lost it.
3
This improvident expenditure has had the effect of making the people discontented.
4
I also say they are not improvident or extravagant, but the reverse.
5
Like mountaineers generally, Baker was liberal to a fault, and eminently improvident.
6
There is nothing so imprudent or so improvident as over-prudence or over-providence.
7
They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful.
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They were, of course, improvident; for, like savages generally, they never save.
9
Another class is composed of helpless infants, with or without improvident mothers.
10
The hollow-eyed women, suffering children, and dazed, improvident negroes, wander around aimlessly.
11
The Negroes were with few exceptions shiftless and improvident plantation laborers and renters.
12
Trade him for that entertainment that I promised those impractical and improvident Nazarenes.
13
The bargain, even if it had been honestly carried out, was improvident enough.
14
But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy.
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These men were always improvident and never seemed to think ahead.
16
An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.
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