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/ɪnkˈɔːʃəsli/
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ADVERB
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without caution or prudence
one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands
How To Use incautiously In A Sentence
- ‘But you are a character in one of them,’ my friend incautiously remarked.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Gussie --" I began incautiously, but he interrupted. "A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 2
- 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
- He admitted that we had been too democratic, but was afraid that we should incautiously run to the other extreme.
- Meanwhile, Hart had incautiously struck up a friendship with William C. STAR
- 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
- I incautiously pull down the ink bottle and the ink splashed all over the desk.