ill-chosen

The language was not ill chosen, and had it been followed by wise action, the scheme might yet have succeeded.

As a bait for securing a client these examples of what the American press was saying of Morton Bassett were decidedly ill-chosen.

His face clouded over, her impulsive words had been after all ill chosen, she had touched a sore point!

The reaction of ill-chosen taxes on industry is a hindrance to their productiveness and their growth.

All their flowers were single, and all their fruit-trees were wild stocks, and their species very ill-chosen.