ill-conceived

adjective

badly conceived or planned: an ill-conceived project.

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ill-conceived
adjective
poorly conceived or thought out; "an ill-conceived plan to take over the company"

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Ill-conceived is always a great word to know.

So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Example sentences

Nevertheless it seems to me that the belief is ill-conceived.

The written word was a forgiving medium for over-complicated, ill-conceived

messages.

The staggered power cuts are also proving ill-conceived.

Excessive and ill-conceived pay encourages chief executives to overreach and

misallocate resources.

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