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View synonyms for ill-conceived

ill-conceived

[ il-kuhn-seevd ]

adjective

  1. badly conceived or planned:

    an ill-conceived project.



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He was finally boxed in by his own ill-conceived red line until Putin offered him a way out.

He admires the “courage of the Dream 9” but calls it an “ill-conceived protest.”

This narrative proves why marriage-promotion programs are such ill-conceived public policy.

Unfortunately, weeks had been wasted on ill-conceived recounts, and now time was running out.

The ill-conceived plan received international media attention, but at the time there was no mention of Mutombo.

"I want that one," he repeated confidently, and pointed to the most ill-proportioned of an ill-conceived litter of mongrels.

It was a feeble and ill-conceived effort to snatch a political advantage out of a forbidding military situation.

His work was ill-conceived and poorly executed, but at the same time it gave access to many places wholly inaccessible before.

Without doubt they were sufferers from their ill-conceived and mischievous Ecclesiastical Titles Act.

James abandoned that ill-conceived idea and went on sinking deep and feeling miserable.

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