improvident
Example Sentences
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“The arbitration clause is improvident because the arbitration process requires US$14,500 in up-front administrative fees,” the top court said.
From Reuters
It opines at length about the benefits if “children of improvident parents starve to death.”
From Scientific American
Doing so would be an extreme and, realistically, improvident move, risking chaos and swings on the Court for decades to come, which may be why Trump likes talking about it.
From The New Yorker
This reluctance is often attributed to a Teutonic belief that Southern Europeans, and Greeks in particular, are lazy and improvident.
From The New Yorker
Long thought of as one of Silicon Valley’s more improvident spenders, Google has lately been garnering a reputation as a skinflint.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
