How To Use Incautious In A Sentence
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an incautious remark
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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.
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Such incautious uses of language, which recur throughout the book, are irritating flaws in a scholarly work.
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Bill and Sandra haven't spoken to each other since he made an incautious remark about her husband's drinking problem.
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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.
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What shall I do in such fearful combat, weak, incautious, divided in myself?
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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.
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He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand.
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We await incautious politicians with the courage to pursue their unfashionable convictions.
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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
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Meanwhile, Hart had incautiously struck up a friendship with William C.
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“From seeing the danger to which my incautious knight-errantry has exposed me; I begin, indeed, to take you for a very mischievous sort of person, and I fear the poor devil from whom I rescued you will be amply revenged for his disgrace, by finding that the first use you make of your freedom is to doom your deliverer to bondage.”
Cecilia
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He admitted that we had been too democratic, but was afraid that we should incautiously run to the other extreme.
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A carefully structured and deliberated response can be shattered into pieces in a few seconds by an incautious word over the telephone.
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As Anne K. Mellor points out (in her introduction to the novel, p. xxiv), it may be significant that Verney succumbs to the plague when, heearing a moan, he compassionately but incautiously enters a dark room where he is 'clasped' by a
Note: Mellor
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I incautiously pull down the ink bottle and the ink splashed all over the desk.
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Gussie --" I began incautiously, but he interrupted.
"A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 2
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His light stick aswing in his hand, his step free and incautious as ever, gray and slender and seeming to look more at the ground than at them, the two women watched him drawing near.
The Coast of Chance
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He was a good-hearted man at the bottom, however, and as tender as a woman in cases of real suffering; though woe to the malingerer or shammer of illness who incautiously ventured within reach of his caustic tongue!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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But it's not necessarily the case that one thinks that all the American people are wrong-headed or that they're being incautious or ignorant of another culture.
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He said the UK, despite Tory claims that he had been incautious, had met his forecasts for growth which was 2.3 per cent last year.
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They might betray themselves to the enemy with some incautious action.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Some people in society refuse to understand me, saying that I was incautious for going out at night.
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Each entry is a jewel, mostly a dark jewel in a darkened setting but now and again catching a burst of full sunlight and flashing with a brilliance fit to blind the incautious or the hasty.
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And again he exclaims – Mexicans! my heart feels itself wounded by the deepest grief, and all humanity shudders in contemplating the unsoundable chaos of evils in which the authors of this rebellion have sunk the incautious men whom they have seduced, in order to form with their dead bodies the bloody ladder which was to raise them to their aggrandizement!
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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She was naïve and incautiously bold, inserting herself into affairs that she little understood, until at last she had come to the Source of all things in this world and was overmatched.
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incautious talk
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An incautious word from you could set our wilful prince's feet on a path where none of us could safely follow him.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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My optimism may seem incautious, but it starts from an appreciation of how dynamic capitalism evolves continuously from its own restless energies.
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There was some discussion about when it was in the charts, a search was duly performed, and someone incautiously clicked the last line on the screen which was, of course, a Pr0n site.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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But after becoming bat can't carry on an attack and absorb blood, defendoofing the dint would also the nasty play descend, so incautious words would more easy the dead drop .
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In addition, Mr. Safdie has incautiously stackied the dramatic deck in favor of Shlaminger's adversaries.
Not in My Front Yard
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An incautious word, I felt, could spark off resentment.
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Today the Fed has not only lost that touch but, given the way our political and financial system currently operates, its own policies exacerbate the cycle of overexuberance and incautious lending that will bring on the next major crisis (and presumably another severe recession).
The Fed, Innovation And The Next Recession
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An incautious word from you could set our wilful prince's feet on a path where none of us could safely follow him.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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It has been used, for example, against those who refer too incautiously to the civilian carnage visited upon Gaza and Lebanon by the Israeli Defence Forces.
Archive 2009-12-01
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They might betray themselves to the enemy with some incautious action.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand.
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It might almost be the glimpse of a stockinged leg with the impersonal passivity of ‘incautiously exposed’, suggesting a body ‘asking for it.’
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And a senior official from the Economic Development and Trade Ministry called the idea ‘very incautious.’
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At a dinner party in New York once, when conversation got around to what we would like to have been doing if fate hadn't directed us into doing what we did, I incautiously said I would like to have been an actor.
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Watson's problem was that he is a bed and breakfast proprietor who several years ago made some incautious remarks on Stephen Nolan's radio show about his reluctance to have homosexual rumpo on the premises; and, as we know, Team Cameron are deeply sensitive about that issue.
Splintered Sunrise
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He hung for a moment over the side, twisted himself back in a strong effort to regain his balance, and incautiously planted his foot inside the unlaying coil.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good
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In a later interview he judged that his earlier assertions about freedom were incautious; but he still held that in the end one is always responsible for what is made of one in some absolute sense.
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I cannot overlook the fact that he is a man of 77 and may, during the course of his evidence, on occasion have said things incautiously.
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Lest any misunderstanding should remain - and it is likely that I have sometimes used incautious language in presenting the theistic case - I must stress the following points.
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Immediately the mutiny had been put down Jack Stilwell had stolen away and rejoined the soldiers forward; and although there was much wonder among the men as to how the affair had been discovered, none suspected him of having betrayed them, and believed that the officers must have been warned by some word incautiously let drop in their hearing.
The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain
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But western leaders, commercial opportunists, and incautious journalists, want us to believe what we cannot see.
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To force all the cultural developments of a complex age into a single pattern might seem incautious.
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The role of the government agencies in predator control, after an incautious start, has been more or less responsible.
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This city's history makes it wide open, accepting, perhaps incautious and that makes London a perfect target for the psychopathic criminal nihilists but it also makes it a robust and adaptable entity.
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Investors in growing enterprises have repented of their boom-era zeal and incautiousness, and are now subjecting every deal to microscopic scrutiny.
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And with this disconsolate reflection, he wended his way to the bartizan or battlements of the tower, to watch what objects might appear on the distant moor, or to pelt, with pebbles and pieces of lime, the sea-mews and cormorants which established themselves incautiously within the reach of an idle young man.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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An upright young man, with an ardent heart, but without wealth, and temperamentally incautious, such as you are, will always be a tool of faction, or a victim of the powerful.
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These multi-interest groups, with the similar speech tradition, developed the two speech trends of rumor known as "incautious sayings" and "cautious sayings" in late Western Zhou Dynasty.
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The tillerman on the second barge ducks, but some of the incautious levies who thought the first wires were the only wires are slashed by the recoiling wire whip.
The Magic Engineer
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an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs
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Assuming that appeals to providential history have been successfully banished from the repertoire of secular progressivism, surely the same ban must apply to the religious thought from which progressives once unconsciously and incautiously borrowed.
Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism
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‘But you are a character in one of them,’ my friend incautiously remarked.
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Those were slow, silent, often turbid; flowing over beds of mud into which the incautious wader might sink and vanish unawares.