unwise

Infinitive complement

• rely: It may be unwise to rely on these initiatives alone.
• underestimate: It would be unwise to underestimate the amount of work which still lies waiting to be done in Northern Ireland.
• generalize: It is unwise to generalize on such matters: it is a subject best left to the good sense of trial judges.
• assume: It would be unwise to assume that these pictures represent real boats.
• ignore: Universities too would be unwise to ignore the changes taking place.
• attempt: It is unwise to attempt to make brushes from spare blocks of carbon.

Modifying Another Word

• politically: It would have been intellectually wasteful, and politically unwise, to try to set out in a new direction.
• perhaps: And it was perhaps unwise of me to ask if the man had any identification with him - which he promptly produced.
• extremely: It would be an extremely unwise Minister who ever withheld such information.
• probably: However, it is probably unwise for a casual workstation to bridge fragments of the local domain which have become temporarily isolated.
• very: Very unwise such liberal use, causes skin, liver & circulatory ailments.
• rather: Was Caleb rather unwise to follow the Lord fully?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: This seems very unwise, to say the least.
• prove: Attempts by officials to stop the Optimists having a water fight proved unwise, provoking a wet response.
• consider: However, the idea that two teenagers would marry today is now often considered unwise by many people.

Modifies a noun

• decision: In the first case, it is shown at least that I have made an unwise pricing decision.
• investment: In fact in my opinion and that of other leading IFAs in the UK this is an unwise investment.
• choice: It would be a very unwise choice on FOX's part to cancel it.
• move: An unwise move, for keeping a greyhound or setter could cost a 40 shilling ( £ 2 ) fine under anti-poaching laws.
• thing: Always an unwise thing to do to a songwriter, don't you think?