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Unadvised

adjective

Without careful prior deliberation or counsel. Synonym: ill-advised. "It would be ill-advised to accept the offer" , "Took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations" Antonym: well-advised.

Having received no information.

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"Unadvised" Quotes from Famous Books

... merchant is turned from his warehouse, the bookman from his books, the farmer from his fields, because they realize that the very foundations of the society, under whose shelter they were able to carry on their avocation, are being shaken, and they can no longer be voiceless, or leave it to deputies, unadvised by them, to arrange national destinies. We are all accustomed to endure the annoyances and irritations caused by legislation which is not agreeable to us, and solace ourselves by remembering that the things which ...

— Imaginations and Reveries • (A.E.) George William Russell

... contributions, no doubt less money would be diverted and far greater efficiency secured. Schools in the North without supervision or superintendence, are usually inferior. Much more are these irresponsible, unadvised and independent schools ...

— The American Missionary - Volume 42, No. 3, March 1888 • Various

... nobles, prelates, and others, whose estates had been confiscated, or who were in daily apprehension of their confiscation, fled into the fens of Lincoln and Ely, where Hereward still maintained his ground. This unadvised step completed the ruin of the little English interest that remained. William hastened to fill up the sees of the bishops and the estates of the nobles with his Norman favorites. He pressed the fugitives with equal vivacity; and ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke