James E. Faust

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

American Clergyman

Eric Maskin

If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.

American Economist

Giacomo Casanova

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Italian Celebrity

Steven Rattner

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

American Businessman

Zygmunt Bauman

The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

Polish Sociologist

Zachary Taylor

I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

American President

Voltaire

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

French Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

English Writer

Imprudent implies a judgement of someone's actions as negative because they lack careful thought.

Negative Connotation

Use 'imprudent' to suggest that an action could likely lead to harm or a bad outcome.

Risk of Harm

'Imprudent' can describe actions done without planning ahead or considering the consequences.

Lack of Planning

 impoverished by their own imprudent actions increasing competition over limited resources Diamond believed led to warfare and finally cannibalism and chaos this happened just before so it said Europeans arrived to see the

Imprudent

Negative Connotation

Risk of Harm

Lack of Planning

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