MEANING
With poor or insufficiently careful judgment about the relevant circumstances.
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- injudiciously disclose
- injudiciously assume
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He injudiciously disclosed the incomplete result without its qualification.
The committee injudiciously assumed that the old procedure would remain adequate after the change.
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- injudiciously
Usage notes
Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Invariable adverb; use more or most only where natural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: effect assessment, evidence qualification, conditional reasoning, method comparison. Disciplines: argumentation, research interpretation, analytical writing. Commonness: uncommon.
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