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| Home | This week’s theme Words originating in horses This week’s words horse race chivalry warhorse wrangler Leo/Jackie the Lion (MGM) A.Word.A.Day with Anu Gargwrangler(RANG-luhr) noun: 1. A cowboy who takes care of horses. 2. A person who engages in debates, quarrels, or disputes. 3. A person who handles animals, puppets, babies, unruly humans, etc., especially on a film set. Probably partial translation of Mexican Spanish caballerango (groom orstable boy), from caballo (horse), from Latin caballus (horse). Ultimatelyfrom Indo-European root wer- (to turn or bend), which also gave us wring,weird, writhe, worth, revert, universe, conversazione,divers,malversation,prosaic,versal,verso, andwroth.Earliest documented use: 1518. “Whether Mr. Ryan would be a wrangler of House conservatives .. is asubject of much debate.” Gabriel Trip; Ryan, Quiet for Now, Is Said to Be Planning for an ActiveRole; The New York Times; Nov 4, 2012. See more usage examples of wrangler in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserablewho enjoys the least pleasure. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher andauthor (28 Jun 1712-1778) |
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“The injudicious hiker was putting himself in a precarious situation.”How to double vocals in pro tools.
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Injudicious (adjective) – characterized by very poor judgement or lack of sense; without wisdom or discretion
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Maybe you’ve heard the term “judicious decision” in reference to a sound legal decision – like those made by a judge. Such decisions are well thought out and consider all sides and opposing points of view. Its opposite, injudicious decisions – like all of us have made in our lives – are not well thought out but, instead, are poorly considered, and oftentimes ill-advised. In other words, something that is injudicious is lacking in good judgment and discretion. But more than lacking wisdom, it can further suggest a lack of common sense.
For example, it would be injudicious – foolish or imprudent – to cheer when your team loses as it would likely anger your friends and teammates. Similarly, feeding a bear cub in the wild would be not only be unsafe but also unwise and injudicious.
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Example sentences:
“The politician had to make a public apology for injudicious tweets made after a cocktail party the previous evening.”
“Trying to appear tough, the teen injudiciously bit into a chili pepper, causing his face to swell and tears to roll from his eyes.”
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“According the ER nurse, half of major injuries are the direct result of blatant injudiciousness, while the other half result from simple misfortune.”