unjudiciousn.adj.

1609 T. Morton Catholike Appeale ii. xii. 236 The principall and most popular argument, whereby our Aduersaries do possesse the minds of the vniudicious.

1738 D. Kinneir New Ess. Nerves (new ed.) 124 The unjudicious, right or wrong, are apt to blame the last remedy or means used.

1907 Theatre Jan. (Advertiser) p. xiii/1 Provoking laughter among some of the judicious and all the unjudicious.

2004 J. C. Meagher Pursuing Shakespeare's Dramaturgy viii. 257 Frivolous costumes that can please only the unjudicious.

1611 J. Downham 2nd Pt. Christian Warfare i. x. 100 Their deformities are not discerned by an ordinary vnderstanding, nor seeme vnhandsome to an vniudicious beholder.

1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iii. 459 O! unjudicious Judges, will you thus Give Law to God?

a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 71 Feare not vniudicious and impudent iudgement of the multitude.

a1674 J. Milton Char. Long Parl. (1681) 10 Prosperous to win a field; but to know the end and Reason of winning, unjudicious and unwise.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Lucatellus The Sanders is a very unjudicious Ingredient, since it cannot answer any End as a Balsamick.

1776 W. J. Mickle in tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 139 (note) An unjudicious mixture of sacred and profane mythology and history.

1867 Health Reformer Aug. 24/1 There should be a special preparation made to prevent the shock that would naturally follow a sudden or unjudicious change of habit.

1909 E. T. Seton Life-hist. Northern Animals I. 618 The Bear has paid with his life, for an unjudicious attempt to eat the quill-clad rodent.

2007 Jrnl. Japanese Stud. 33 477 Unjudicious use of the antibiotic streptomycin in the early postwar years created a generation of deafened children.

1656 P. Heylyn Full Relation Two Journeys i. ii. iv. 69 It was therefore not unjudiciously said of an English Gentleman, that he thought Paris was the strongest Town in Christendome.

1780 D. Monro Observ. Means of Preserving Health of Soldiers (ed. 2) I. iv. i. 247 Like other powerful remedies they certainly may do much mischief if unjudiciously used.

1858 Morning Post 4 Oct. 7/3 There are dangers ahead if we unjudiciously push progress forward too far in that direction.

1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 Oct. b1 He has prepared sound bites—which he unjudiciously repeats—about his love for stereotypical British snootiness.