Taking a shortcut into the conversation du jour is an ill conceived ticket to nowhere, and worse yet, as in this case, into a nefarious dark alley of crisis proportions," said Alexandra Levy, Founder and CEO of Silicon Alley Media, a strategic communication and crisis PR company.
Israel's action, indisputably in international waters, was an ill conceived act of piracy condemned by essentially every nation other than the United States.
When a production seems ill conceived or clunky, some patrons boo production teams on behalf of the singers, who may have been forced to climb rocks, wear cumbersome costumes, sing "Di quella pira" while straddling a seesaw, and whatnot.
There was nothing intrinsically wrong with good, lightly smoked duck, served with dried cherries, figs, greens and "Inca rice" -- quinoa, I believe -- but the combination was ill conceived, a bowl of many different ingredients that never merged into one dish.
It was, I think, a moment of madness, ill conceived and ill thought out, driven more than anything else by endless news videos of streams of Syrian and other muslim refugees making their way across Europe.
Aziz was a mohajir, an Urdu speaking Muslim whose family migrated from northern India to Karachi, then the capital of a newly created but ill conceived Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Speaking at a news conference where he was flanked by other House Republicans, Mr. DeLay said a commission "during a time of war is ill conceived and frankly irresponsible".
But even the best intelligence can turn out to be mistaken, and the likelihood that this was the case in Iraq shows why pre-emptive war, the Bush administration's strategy since 9/11, is so ill conceived as a foundation for security policy.
A parliamentary committee blamed the "ill conceived" intervention for the spread of Isis in the region.
Reformers say that it does not go nearly far enough and those against it see it as ill conceived and a government take-over.
"Building new coal-fired power plants is ill conceived," said James E. Hansen, a leading climatologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
