Sentence examples similar to an ill devised from inspiring English sources

Adam's plot to exact revenge on him is so ill devised that it fails to be entirely convincing.

It is surprising that Owen Jones thinks leftwing progressives should give up on fighting neoliberal ideology in Europe but can win the battle by retreating to the home front, a la Ukip, in the most neoliberal of all the 28 member states, albeit one not shackled by the weaknesses of an ill-devised monetary union.

Others are intentionally introduced, whether for food, as pets or in an ill-devised attempt to control another species that we want to get rid of.

To prevent their marriage the daughter devises an ill-fated plot in which the pretence of an affair between her boyfriend and the father's dumped girlfriend is intended to provoke jealousy and restore the status quo ante.

Then Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, famous for changing attitudes towards the treatment of the dying, carried out a series of interviews with terminally ill people, and devised the five stages we know of today to describe the experience of facing impending death – though didn't test them in any systematic way.

Health insurance is an organizational arrangement devised to offer financial protection to a large group of individuals (known as the risk pool) from the costs associated with preventing and treating ill health.

Notoriety is an ill fit.

Feminism is an ill?

It's an ill (east) wind….

It is indeed an ill wind.

We use a method devised by Pro Football Reference.