How to Use imprudence in a Sentence

imprudence

noun
  • No one lectured her on the imprudence of wielding a military-style weapon in campaign ads.
    — Robert Draper, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The imprudence of a Sanders run has nothing to do with his status as an independent.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 19 June 2017
  • Financial imprudence is annoying in friends who ask others to cover their costs.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Claims of juror imprudence and calls for a mistrial have swirled during and after Stone's trial.
    — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Deficit concerns have now made such fiscal imprudence impossible.
    — Benjamin Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2011
  • Johnson’s imprudence has too often been explained or excused as a kind of perpetual boyishness.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
  • But citing the imprudence of maintaining two public golf courses, the park board notified the city last summer of its intent to discontinue golf at the country club.
    — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
  • Yet for all the cut corners and dramatic hyperbole, Bogart does at least honor his father by capturing how his spirit of fast-and-loose ebullient imprudence played out in business terms.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Apr. 2023
  • While unconventional, DeChambeau’s approach is not borne of carelessness or imprudence.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The court rejected the argument, concluding that a prospective rate hearing — unlike that on the response time — would be considered contested and the utility would have the opportunity to challenge the finding of imprudence then.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The 2008 banking bailout protected many of the executives whose manifest imprudence created the housing crash that precipitated the financial crisis.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023

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