inconsiderately

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in·con·sid·er·ate

(ĭn′kən-sĭd′ər-ĭt)

adj.

1. Thoughtless of others; displaying a lack of consideration: It is inconsiderate to make noise when people are trying to study.

2. Archaic Not well considered or carefully thought out; ill-advised: an inconsiderate notion.

in′con·sid′er·ate·ly adv.

in′con·sid′er·ate·ness, in′con·sid′er·a′tion (-ā′shən) n.

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Adv.

inconsiderately - without consideration; in an inconsiderate manner; "inconsiderately, he asked to be invited for dinner"

considerately - in a considerate manner; "they considerately withdrew"

Translations

sconsideratamente

inconsiderately

adv → rücksichtslos

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Your uncle was wrong to state his objections so roundly and inconsiderately as he did.

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Marianne spoke inconsiderately what she really felt-- but when she saw how much she had pained Edward, her own vexation at her want of thought could not be surpassed by his.

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Sometimes I have inconsiderately begun to speak, when my occupant, lolling back in my arms, was inclined to take an after-dinner nap.

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"Oh!" cried Philip, inconsiderately, from his place, and without ceasing to admire himself, -- "I recollect once, at Melun, the supper was laid for nobody, and that the king ate two-thirds of a slice of bread, and abandoned to me the other third."

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This is not the only case in which the articles of Confederation have inconsiderately endeavored to accomplish impossibilities; to reconcile a partial sovereignty in the Union, with complete sovereignty in the States; to subvert a mathematical axiom, by taking away a part, and letting the whole remain.

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That she had already permitted him to make love to her he read as an additional assurance, not fully trowing that in the fields and pastures to "sigh gratis" is by no means deemed waste; love-making being here more often accepted inconsiderately and for its own sweet sake than in the carking anxious homes of the ambitious, where a girl's craving for an establishment paralyzes her healthy thought of a passion as an end.

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He has been opening the doors very often this evening, and keeping them open very inconsiderately. He does not think of the draught.

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Poor Janet has been sadly taken in, and yet there was nothing improper on her side: she did not run into the match inconsiderately; there was no want of foresight.

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"He is a good creature, and more sensible than any one would imagine," said Dorothea, inconsiderately.

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He answered inconsiderately, however, that the doctor feared the worst.

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"Monsieur, if it is not abusing your good-nature, and acting very inconsiderately towards a stranger to whom we are already under obligations, would you have the goodness, as you are going to Paris, to remit a sum of money to M.

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The King of France himself, in consequence of once having inconsiderately knocked at the door of the thermaturgist, sank to the knees through the pavement of his own Paris.