IMPRUDENT in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for IMPRUDENT, such as:

1. Arobin was not needlessly imprudent.
2. He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant.
3. This weakness had led him to an imprudent concession.
4. It is imprudent to exercise vigorously and become overheated when you are unwell.
5. 'Oh, very imprudent indeed, Master Copperfield,' returned Uriah, sighing modestly.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPRUDENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
imprudent
 a.  lacking caution; injudicious; not attentive to consequence
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  It was the natural result of the conduct of each party, and such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  And really," added Edmund, "the day is so mild, that your sitting down for a few minutes can be hardly thought imprudent.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  Their Tartarean situation might by some have been called an imprudent one for two unattended women.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
4  "It was imprudent, all the same," said Holmes, shaking his head and looking very grave.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
5  The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape-shot.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
6  This weakness had led him to an imprudent concession.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
7  The imprudent young man expected a surprise, mixed with shame--a slight storm which would resolve itself into tears; but he was strangely deceived, and his error was not of long duration.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 37 MILADY'S SECRET
8  She also recollected the furious and imprudent attack she had made upon d'Artagnan when he spared the life of her brother.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
9  Do not involve yourself or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
10  My father and mother knew nothing of that; they only felt how imprudent a match it must be.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47
11  He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47
12  But Miss Bart showed herself a less ready prey than might have been expected from her imprudent opening.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  Arobin was not needlessly imprudent.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXV
14  Cora remained silent, for she knew not how to palliate this imprudent severity on the part of her father in a manner to suit the comprehension of an Indian.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
15  'Oh, very imprudent indeed, Master Copperfield,' returned Uriah, sighing modestly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
Example Sentence:
1  It is imprudent to exercise vigorously and become overheated when you are unwell.