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104 examples of Unwise in a sentence

If a police officer ever pulls you over for speeding and asks, "Do you know how fast you were going?" an insightful, though perhaps unwise, reply would be, "Relative to what?"
So depending on your politics, you might think that affirmative action is either a wise or an unwise way to promote diversity in the workplace or the classroom.
This is unwise.
And how they have been achieved ... Sir Francis Bacon once said, "When you wish to achieve results that have not been achieved before, it is an unwise fancy to think that they can be achieved by using methods that have been used before."
It would be unwise to judge that that either narrative or documentary to be more authentic than the other.
That is how Mrs. Brown often makes Mr. Brown look foolish or unwise.
It's not something you are going to do all the time, but the experience is so pleasurable that you can ignore how unwise you are being.
The Princess, though no doubt doing what she was directed to do, had no regal bearing, and all the girls seemed to lose the cleverness of their characters - also affected by unwise cuts, which not only took away the female characters already sparse dialogue, but took comments out of context - it was a little unnerving to hear the Princess proclaim; "We are wise girls to mock our lovers so!", when mocking had not taken place at all.
In conclusion, an excellent play, ruined by an odd concept, and unwise cuts.
The plot is incredibly unwise - 2 men survive the genetic catastrophe and find themselves on the planet full of feminist strong, straight and fundamentally severe ladies.
A word of warning-it is most unwise to allow Tom to help you perform your morning cleansing routine!
Someone made the unwise decision early on to stick as close to the hit Broadway play as possible in adapting "The Bad Seed" for the movies, including having several key actors reprise their roles, including Patty McCormick in the lead as a sociopathic youngster in long pig-tails.
The script never gives us anything else and trying to convince us that nobody even suspects Thora's Liz is unwise.
But this time, George W. Bush and John Kerry both know that it would be unwise to bash China too hard.
Moreover, starting a bilateral confrontation is unwise.
Moreover, some commented, it was unwise: not only would Trump need to rely on these agencies in future crises; they’re filled with skilled infighters who know how to use strategic leaks.
To adhere to a narrow Westphalian concept of sovereignty in this world is an unwise anachronism at best, and a dangerous gamble at worst.
That would be unwise.
Yet followers of world affairs would be unwise to consign colonialism to the proverbial dustbin of history, for it remains a factor in understanding our world's problems and dangers.
Where value added in Chinese manufacturing has been growing by 8% a year, service-sector productivity is unlikely to exceed 1% if China is unlucky or unwise enough to follow the example of Korea and Japan.
But to dismiss them would be unwise, because their utopian aspirations are based on genuine and legitimate anxieties.
Yet this pressure is unwise, and somewhat hypocritical.
But, because of political pressure exerted by small, powerful interest groups, windfall profits will inevitably be spent at home in unwise subsidies.
Yet in the realm of transatlantic relations, as is true globally, it is unwise to expect too much from a single man, whatever his exceptional qualities.
Reading the Signs of the TimesPARIS – Comparing today’s demagogues with Adolf Hitler is almost always unwise.
Seeking dialogue with North Korea immediately after its missile tantrum and nuclear brinkmanship is unwise and impractical.
Likewise, it would be unwise for the US gratuitously to offer China a role in the affairs of a region that includes India itself – something that Obama appeared to do during his visit to China earlier this year, when he mentioned China as having a role to play in Kashmir.
Moreover, the model is unwise to the extent that tissue donors could block the development of knowledge and applications.
It may be unwise , though, because the knowledge and applications over which they retain control may have implications for other diseases.
The unfair and unwise elements of these models nonetheless suggest a solution that is both fair and wise: a tissue tax.
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