How to Use incautious in a Sentence

incautious

adjective
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  • Their incautious behavior is going to get them into trouble someday.
  • He offended several people with his incautious remarks.
  • The route from Porto to Lisbon presented nary a patch of dry pavement and more than a few incautious sheep wandering out of the fog.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2020
  • And while the easing varied country to country, many leaders made clear that things could be shut down again — if citizens grew suddenly too incautious.
    — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2020
  • Every so often the Central Intelligence Agency uses the proviso to seize the profits of a book by an incautious ex-spook.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And those inclined to show continued support must contort themselves in their efforts to work around his intemperate, incautious words.
    — Scott Pilutik, Slate Magazine, 30 July 2017
  • Regardless of the quality of his lawyering, Cobb appears to be unreliable, incautious, and to have fraught relations with colleagues.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Boris Johnson, a charismatic and incautious politician with scant public views on science, became U.K. prime minister last week.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 29 July 2019
  • Now, in The Suicide of the West, an older, more circumspect Goldberg, having spent more than a decade arguing that liberals are mindless crypto-fascists, is here to warn us that incautious rhetoric is tearing the country apart.
    — Park MacDougald, Daily Intelligencer, 1 June 2018
  • Unexploded yet active remains of the Vietnam War now lie in wait for incautious scrap-metal scavengers or for unsuspecting children at play.
    — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2016
  • Bannon told Kuttner, in an interview that was astonishing for its incautious honesty.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Please's food is exploratory, boundary-crossing, incautious.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • This might then leave us with the impression of Levine as overly cautious in some ways but in others, particularly when his conducting was unflinchingly introspective or orgiastic, altogether incautious.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Second, signs are appearing that fund managers, desperate for higher yields, are becoming increasingly incautious.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • President Trump, confined to the Rose Garden a short while later, conducted a news conference heavy on characteristic self-congratulation, periodic misrepresentation and medically incautious handshakes.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2020

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