To such an extent had Natasha let herself go that the way she dressed and did her hair, her
ill-chosen words, and her jealousy- she was jealous of Sonya, of the governess, and of every woman, pretty or plain- were habitual subjects of jest to those about her.
That her manner was wrong, however, at times very wrong, her measures often
ill-chosen and ill-timed, and her looks and language very often indefensible, Fanny could not cease to feel; but she began to hope they might be rectified.
He took an easychair, uninvited; placed himself close at his aunt's side, and ran his eye over her
ill-chosen dress with an air of satirical admiration.
'Your trifling is ill-timed,' retorted the other in a suppressed tone and voice, 'and its subject
ill-chosen. Reserve it for those who are your friends, and do not expend it on me.
Oswald the cupbearer modestly suggested, ``that it was scarce an hour since the tolling of the curfew;'' an
ill-chosen apology, since it turned upon a topic so harsh to Saxon ears.
Wait till my return, if I do return"; and then he represented, that the time when the regiment was daily expecting to quit England, was exceedingly
ill-chosen: that the few days or weeks during which they were still to remain at home, must be devoted to business and not to love-making: time enough for that when he came home with his majority; "for, I promise you," said he, with a satisfied air, "that one way or other you shall read the name of George Osborne in the Gazette."
After favouring them with some heads of that discourse, he remarked that he considered the subject of the day's homily,
ill-chosen; which was the less excusable, he added, when there were so many subjects "going about."
From the first this attempt was unfortunate, perhaps because the place for descent was
ill-chosen. A balloon should come down in an empty open space, and he chose a crowd.
But Wrench had a wretched lymphatic wife who made a mummy of herself indoors in a large shawl; and he must have altogether begun with an
ill-chosen domestic apparatus.
Even what she read and said seemed to us to be
ill-chosen for such auditors, if it had been imparted ever so modestly and with ever so much tact.
"And you will probably find your theme
ill-chosen."
This applies especially to those with audible voices on social media and elsewhere who, with an
ill-chosen word or remark, or with unsubstantiated speculation or fake news, can undermine and even decimate all the hard work exerted to restore confidence in Lebanon and its economy.