ill-considered

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In an open letter, first reported by the Financial Times, they said "ill considered" ethical investment rules had been holding back their access to finance.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

The right way to proceed, given your concerns, is to get the building’s management to change its interpretation of the rules, by arguing that the interpretation is unwarranted and the policy ill considered.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

Frank described symptoms that occurred in the week before menstruation: irritability, bloating, fatigue, depression, attacks of pain, nervousness, restlessness, and the impulse for “foolish and ill considered actions,” due to ovarian activity.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2016

The Middle East not being Scandinavia, Abdullah’s remarks seem ill considered indeed.

From Newsweek • Mar. 20, 2013

There were, besides, three men sick of fever and dysentery, desperately ill, considered hopeless when sent to the "Refuge," but who all recovered.

From Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Beers, Fannie A.