How to Use imprudent in a Sentence

imprudent

adjective
  • It's politically imprudent to stir up such controversy during an election year.
  • If a cost is found imprudent, it is rejected.
    — Rory M. Christian, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • This doesn't matter only to those imprudent predators in the ocean.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2017
  • But whether the pick is imprudent or obvious (or both) is only part of the story.
    — S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
  • Adding a fourth option at the position may well be deemed imprudent given the club’s finances.
    — Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Edsall isn't imprudent enough to make Pindell sound like Tom Brady.
    — Jeff Jacobs, courant.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Singh is also charged with two counts of third-degree assault, reckless driving and driving at an imprudent speed.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024
  • To be fair, those imprudent claims were made without the benefit of seeing this evidence.
    — CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The particular state law just keeps doing its thing and rarely gets challenged as somehow wrongful or imprudent.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Such rules are an imprudent use of taxpayer dollars and reduce growth by making inputs such as iron and steel more expensive.
    — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Alas, New York’s fossil-fuel pivot is even more imprudent than the nation’s.
    — Anshul Gupta, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • To destroy it to bury an artificial tank to hold flood water pumped in from faraway flood-prone areas of the village is imprudent.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • How could such a fiscally imprudent thing happen with taxpayer dollars?
    — John Henderson, The Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Wait — all that about prudent and imprudent choices in regard to the pandemic is irrelevant.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Not always focused, sometimes imprudent, but never anything except the cleverest guy around.
    — Alan Richman, Esquire, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Living with the consequences of his imprudent decision is Cameron’s tragedy, and Britain’s, too.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Their union would have been imprudent by 19th-century English standards.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022
  • Taschler said imprudent spending by the previous board contributed to the district’s decline in assets.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The interest and usage would be narrow, and somewhat imprudent other than for basic research pursuits.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Ultimately, trying to peel Russia away from China is both imprudent and wrong.
    — Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2025
  • No one is imprudent enough to lay his or her cards on the table, but Spector makes every apparent stab at diplomacy into a sly bid for power.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
  • That’s imprudent, because the Arctic’s climate is changing more rapidly than anywhere on Earth.
    — Paul Bierman, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • That’s imprudent, because the Arctic’s climate is changing more rapidly than anywhere on Earth.
    — Paul Bierman, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Perhaps Daryl Morey's gamble to acquire Westbrook wasn't as imprudent as many suggest.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Mar. 2023
  • This is a very imprudent assumption that could lead to war and, ultimately, American defeat.
    — Elbridge Colby, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The impulse to do something is understandable, but military action would be imprudent, even reckless.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The history of emerging markets is full of imprudent investors as well as improvident borrowers.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • While the guidance isn’t mandatory, regulators would certainly have questions for any bank that lines up an imprudent fintech partnership.
    — Paul Davis, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Betting that Beyond Meat would ever achieve market share so much greater than the largest companies in the meat business is imprudent for fiduciaries and risky, to say the least.
    — David Trainer, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Betting that Beyond Meat would ever achieve market share so much greater than the largest companies in the meat business is imprudent for fiduciaries and risky, to say the least.
    — David Trainer, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'imprudent.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: