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ill-chosen
adjective as in unfortunate
Weak matches
- adverse
- afflicted
- awkward
- broken
- burdened
- calamitous
- cursed
- damaging
- deplorable
- desperate
- destitute
- disastrous
- doomed
- forsaken
- hapless
- hopeless
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- in a bad way
- inappropriate
- inept
- infelicitous
- inopportune
- jinxed
- lamentable
- luckless
- out of luck
- pained
- poor
- regrettable
- ruined
- ruinous
- shattered
- star-crossed
- stricken
- troubled
- unbecoming
- unfavorable
- unhappy
- unpropitious
- unprosperous
- unsuccessful
- unsuitable
- untoward
- wretched
Example Sentences
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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