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
• Singh is also charged with two counts of third-degree assault, reckless driving and driving at an imprudent speed.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024
• 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
• Jackson County prosecutors charged Stoff, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of careless and imprudent driving.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
• Historians will debate how imprudent this growth model was, but they should not be distracted by the erroneous idea that things were going well in China until the United States blocked investment flows.
  — Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2023
• The history of emerging markets is full of imprudent investors as well as improvident borrowers.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• The president’s camp is throwing haymakers at anyone on their side who is imprudent enough to be honest about the president’s condition and his dimming political prospects in November.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024