Crossword-Solution: IMPRUDENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Imprudence | n. | The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence. |
We have 38 clues for the answer “IMPRUDENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Lack of discretion | 1 answer |
| a lack of caution in practical affairs | 1 answer |
| Rash actions | 2 answers |
| Reckless behavior | 3 answers |
| courage of despair | 5 answers |
| Quixotry | 5 answers |
| playing with fire | 6 answers |
| dangerous game | 7 answers |
| foolhardiness | 14 answers |
| Indiscretion | 21 answers |
| Temerity | 23 answers |
| sloppiness | 32 answers |
| permissiveness | 33 answers |
| laxness | 36 answers |
| imprecision | 37 answers |
| Mistreatment | 39 answers |
| unrestraint | 40 answers |
| negligence | 45 answers |
| Effrontery | 45 answers |
| Recklessness | 48 answers |
| Audacity | 49 answers |
| Senselessness? | 52 answers |
| Impropriety | 54 answers |
| incorrectness | 60 answers |
| desperation | 61 answers |
| inattentiveness | 65 answers |
| Carelessness | 67 answers |
| heedlessness | 68 answers |
| slackness | 69 answers |
| Lack | 71 answers |
| Rashness | 74 answers |
| Neglect | 74 answers |
| Disregard | 75 answers |
| Error | 79 answers |
| inaccuracy | 80 answers |
| Slip | 85 answers |
| Mistake | 86 answers |
| Enthusiasm | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with IMPRUDENCE (5)
Armand knew that: and those who took advantage of Marguerite’s youth, her impulses and imprudence, knew it still better; but Blakeney was slow-witted, he would not listen to “circumstances,” he only clung to facts, and these had shown him Lady Blakeney denouncing a fellow-man to a tribunal that knew no pardon: and the contempt he would feel for the deed she had done, however unwittingly, would kill that same love in him, in which sympathy and intellectuality could never have had a part.
And Jane Fairfax, too, of all women!” “Nay, she has always been a first favourite with him, as you very well know.” “But the imprudence of such a match!” “I am not speaking of its prudence; merely its probability.” “I see no probability in it, unless you have any better foundation than what you mention.
Believe them to be stronger than I have declared; believe them, in short, to be such as his merit, and the suspicion—the hope of his affection for me may warrant, without imprudence or folly.
Several times did she almost resolve to go to her governess, show her the letter, and be guided by her advice: but Charlotte had taken one step in the ways of imprudence; and when that is once done, there are always innumerable obstacles to prevent the erring person returning to the path of rectitude: yet these obstacles, however forcible they may appear in general, exist chiefly in imagination.
Glennard, with the recklessness of a man fresh from his first financial imprudence, encouraged her in such little extravagances as her good sense at first resisted.
Quotes with IMPRUDENCE (3)
Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. Time, blunting the edges of those sharp memories. Laila bore down mentally. What had he said? It seemed vital, suddenly, that she know. Laila closed her eyes. Concentrated. With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when Laila woul…
If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.
O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1970–2014).