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Example sentences for "unwisely"

Lexicographically close words:
unwinds; unwinking; unwinkingly; unwisdom; unwise; unwithered; unwitting; unwittingly; unwomanly; unwonted
  1. When she had unwisely complained to Oliver, he had remarked impatiently that he couldn't be bothered about the housekeeping, and Lucy had openly accused her of being "fussy.

  2. Then said the Showman, sadly: "He who grieves Over the scattering of the sibyl's leaves Unwisely mourns.

  3. I am more and more confirmed in the belief that Leonard hath not done unwisely in this matter, and do cheerfully accept of his choice, believing it to be in the ordering of Him who doeth all things well.

  4. Bulgaria, embittered at the time by the fact that Roumania had taken advantage of the situation to demand a territorial grant south of the Danube, was unwisely obstinate and would make no concession to any of her partners.

  5. His son Vladimir succeeded to the throne, but ruled so unwisely that King Boris came back from the cloister to depose Vladimir and to set in his stead upon the throne Simeon, who created the first Bulgarian Empire.

  6. During the year unwisely allowed by Grenville for considering the proposed tax, they busily agitated against it.

  7. Rockingham acted unwisely in accepting office offered to him in a way which showed that he was not to have the king's confidence.

  8. He had much better, as Disraeli told him, do like Cosmo de Medici, and leave his character to posterity; he unwisely enough noticed a very warm and unjust attack which Henry Bentinck had made upon him at some public meeting.

  9. The Government got a majority of two in a division which Stanley most unwisely forced on, and the affair ended in a general opinion that the Ministers had much the best of it, and that Stanley had been signally defeated.

  10. The Chancellor replied well enough, and Grey very unwisely spoke after him.

  11. The length of time which he had unwisely allowed to elapse now created an additional difficulty.

  12. I may have done unwisely what I have done for her.

  13. The marchioness now began to suggest to him that he had done unwisely by resigning his crown; and, day by day, urged him to recover it.

  14. Charles unwisely took part in projects for effecting Strafford's escape, and even for raising a military force to accomplish that end.

  15. His very credulities have a philosophy of their own; and modern historians have acted unwisely in disdaining the occasional repetition even of his fables.

  16. Having spoken, he rushed unwisely into battle, lost all of his troops, was driven from the city of Ramla, and escaped alone.

  17. Hugh the Great did not wait for his men and the knights of the princes who were his allies, but hastily and unwisely went to the port of Bari, and after a fortunate sea-journey, arrived at Dyrrachium.

  18. Of late Lise had become an increased source of anxiety to Hannah, who was unwisely resolved to make this occasion an object lesson.

  19. This statement Mr. Sprole unwisely accepted as a fiction.

  20. This he unwisely consented to do, and the next Thursday was fixed for his appearance in the same play.

  21. Wordsworth has been unwisely blamed, as if he had been recreant to the liberal instincts of his youth.

  22. They assume, moreover, an amount of political knowledge on the part of their readers which would be very unwisely assumed by any English novel-writer.

  23. It afforded an electric-light fixture, and Laurie, switching on the light, emphasized this advantage to the reluctant new occupant, who unwisely put up a brief and losing fight on its threshold.

  24. It was not yet two o'clock in the afternoon, and darkness would not fall until five, even unwisely assuming that it would be safe to approach the place as soon as darkness came.

  25. A few more successes like "The Man Above" would make Epstein forget several failures he had already and unwisely produced this season.

  26. This biographer, I think, has been unwisely candid in the delineation of Byron's character, making revelations that would better have remained in doubt, and on which friendship at least should have prompted him to a discreet silence.

  27. But Napoleon received no money whatever from the Bourbon court; and his complaints on this head were unjustly and unwisely neglected.

  28. Moreover, he unwisely made concessions to the nobles, and increased the burdens of the peasants.

  29. He was a weak prince, and unwisely accepted for his second son, Edmund, the crown of the Two Sicilies, which could be won only at the expense of England.

  30. She was vain, unwisely parsimonious, petulant, and overbearing, and evinced that want of truthfulness which was too common among rulers and statesmen at that period.

  31. He unwisely attempted to unite all the troops under his own command.

  32. Her final declaration came tardily, if not indeed unwisely as a matter of practical policy, however abundantly justified by England's commercial restrictions and her seizure of American as well as British seamen on American ships.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unwisely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.