[
UK
/ɪnkˈɔːʃəs/
]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking in caution
an incautious remark
incautious talk -
carelessly failing to exercise proper caution
an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs
How To Use incautious In A Sentence
- an incautious remark
- Because the potential costs of an incautious filibuster are so obvious, the Democrats have opted not to filibuster even in situations where the temptation to employ the tactic must have been strong.
- Such incautious uses of language, which recur throughout the book, are irritating flaws in a scholarly work.
- Bill and Sandra haven't spoken to each other since he made an incautious remark about her husband's drinking problem.
- I will explain how this came about, since I still cannot believe that I was so incautious as to assent when the Lord asked me to come down.
- What shall I do in such fearful combat, weak, incautious, divided in myself?
- The UK's international alliances could be damaged by the incautious assertion of arguments under international law which affect the position of those other states.
- He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand.
- We await incautious politicians with the courage to pursue their unfashionable convictions.
- Bob, impressing upon him all my arrangements, in case of contingencies requiring an alteration in my original plan; for, as soon as we were fairly at work, everything would have to be done, as far as possible, in absolute silence, and I did not wish to leave any explanations for a moment when, perhaps, a single word incautiously uttered might lead to our betrayal. For Treasure Bound