improvidently

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Improvidently the plates of the boat had been gummed together only, instead of being also sewed.

From Christopher Carson by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Improvidently, I think we may say, Mr. Lincoln yielded to their request for the original draft of the Proclamation to be sold for the benefit of the fair.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by Boutwell, George S.