Many of Jackson's subsequent acts seemed like stunningly ill-advised and cynical attempts to rehabilitate his image.

The fictional PC drowned after an heroic but ill-advised attempt to save a young boy.

In an ill-advised attempt to calm Málinka, Brouček agrees to marry her.

Or could it be due to his ill-advised attempt to sneak past them?

"Sometimes I got stupid," he said, referring to his ill-advised attempts at hitting home runs.

Your ill-advised and blasphemous attempt to gain information by means of your devilish instruments must be stopped.

Some rooms seem to suffer the after-effects of earlier, ill-advised attempts at modernisation.

Witness, General Burnside's ill-advised attempt to remove you from the army.

I am not referring to your ill-advised attempt to free the animal from captivity.

"So, in what has turned out to be a very ill-advised attempt to limit creation, they lowered the temperature in the hibernatories."