How to Use imprudent in a Sentence

imprudent

adjective

• It's politically imprudent to stir up such controversy during an election year.
• This doesn't matter only to those imprudent predators in the ocean.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2017
• Edsall isn't imprudent enough to make Pindell sound like Tom Brady.
  — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• Living with the consequences of his imprudent decision is Cameron’s tragedy, and Britain’s, too.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2019
• To destroy it to bury an artificial tank to hold flood water pumped in from faraway flood-prone areas of the village is imprudent.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Betting that Beyond Meat would ever achieve market share so much greater than the largest companies in the meat business is imprudent for fiduciaries and risky, to say the least.
  — David Trainer, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• And that’s where the true danger lies: in a prestige game between two nuclear powers led by imprudent leaders.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
• The New York Post once reported him dead due to an imprudent, unsourced outburst on legacy media Twitter.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• No one is imprudent enough to lay his or her cards on the table, but Spector makes every apparent stab at diplomacy into a sly bid for power.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
• Perhaps Daryl Morey's gamble to acquire Westbrook wasn't as imprudent as many suggest.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Mar. 2023
• Such rules are an imprudent use of taxpayer dollars and reduce growth by making inputs such as iron and steel more expensive.
  — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• That’s because waiting out the current U.S.-Turkish crisis seems... imprudent.
  — Ankit Panda, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2019
• Taschler said imprudent spending by the previous board contributed to the district’s decline in assets.
  — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Wait — all that about prudent and imprudent choices in regard to the pandemic is irrelevant.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
• Their union would have been imprudent by 19th-century English standards.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022
• That may have been imprudent: The goal of the individual mandate is to get healthy people to buy insurance, which spreads risk across a broader population and helps keep prices lower for all of us.
  — Nicholas Bagley, Vox, 8 June 2018
• This is a very imprudent assumption that could lead to war and, ultimately, American defeat.
  — Elbridge Colby, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2021
• But at its extremes, our family’s prudence was imprudent.
  — Alexandra Kleeman, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• Further breaking higher education to the saddle of the state is an imprudent (and, which is much the same thing, unconservative) objective.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• This is a player who, along with Curry, has long pushed the boundaries of basketball, stretching the limits of three-point shooting to a range that would have been viewed by past generations as imprudent, if not impossible.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2023
• Unleashing thousands of foreigners like me, an American journalist covering the Games, into a city — to its restaurants and bars and stores — would be imprudent.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• Not always focused, sometimes imprudent, but never anything except the cleverest guy around.
  — Alan Richman, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2017
• And drawing grand conclusions in August is often imprudent.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• The impulse to do something is understandable, but military action would be imprudent, even reckless.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Mar. 2023
• How could such a fiscally imprudent thing happen with taxpayer dollars?
  — John Henderson, The Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• The history of emerging markets is full of imprudent investors as well as improvident borrowers.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• While the guidance isn’t mandatory, regulators would certainly have questions for any bank that lines up an imprudent fintech partnership.
  — Paul Davis, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• His career-long master plot was ruin through overreach: an impractical and imprudent and profligate greatness.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• Over the course of the story, the focus of Halim’s laborious artistry is a blue satin garment with golden embellishments (petroleum blue, specifically, as Halim notes to an imprudent patron).
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Both parties like to use government-funding votes to criticize their opponents as fiscally imprudent.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024