adjective

• Not planned or meant.

  ‘the unintended consequences of people's actions’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Important unintended consequences need to be accounted for when mergers are planned.’
  • ‘I suppose that his big thing is to point out how the law of unintended consequences keeps rearing its ugly head even with the best of intentions.’
  • ‘This article's a few months old, but I've only just seen it - a great example of unintended consequences.’
  • ‘It is a classic example of the law of unintended consequence.’
  • ‘Nonetheless, this is another indication of the unintended consequences of knee-jerk legislation.’
  • ‘A triumph, yet again, for the most pervasive rule in public policy: the law of unintended consequences.’
  • ‘The unintended consequences of that decision are all around us.’
  • ‘Or does the deal they have the government have some sort of funny clause in it which has led to this unintended consequence?’
  • ‘There are other projections for what might take place - ones that follow the law of unintended consequences.’
  • ‘History is the story of contradictions and unintended consequences.’
  • ‘They're discovering the unintended consequences of recording and celebrating them.’
  • ‘As an unintended consequence of regional Government we will begin to see more cultural politics.’
  • ‘Police say the rise in violence is an unintended consequence of huge improvements in car security.’
  • ‘It is possible that many of your measures have been subject to a law of unintended consequences.’
  • ‘These woolly liberals might mean well but it is the law of unintended consequences.’
  • ‘Real change in politics comes from the law of unintended consequences.’
  • ‘As we all know, revolutions often deliver unintended consequences.’
  • ‘It can be seen that the conclusion at which we have arrived does have possibly unintended social and employment consequences.’
  • ‘He understands the suffering and the unintended consequences and the horrors of war.’
  • ‘Failed royal policies had other unintended consequences as well.’

  Synonyms

  absent-minded, heedless, thoughtless, unmindful, careless, injudicious, ill-advised, ill-considered, imprudent, unwise, foolish, silly, stupid, reckless, rash, precipitate, negligent, neglectful, remiss