ill-thought-of

Updated: May 9, 2025

Some affair abroad had disturbed him and he came into the hall, when his sisters' voices were raised giddily as they played off an idle, ill-thought-of jest on grave, cold Nelly. "Queans and fools," he termed them, and bade them "end their steer" so harshly, that the free, thoughtful girls did not think of pouting or crying, but shrank back in affright.

Sarah Tytler - Girlhood and Womanhood: The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes