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[ UK /ɪnkˈɔːʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking in caution
    an incautious remark
    incautious talk
  2. carelessly failing to exercise proper caution
    an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs

How To Use incautious In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • In addition, Mr. Safdie has incautiously stackied the dramatic deck in favor of Shlaminger's adversaries. Not in My Front Yard
  • An incautious word, I felt, could spark off resentment.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • They might betray themselves to the enemy with some incautious action. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • He would be incautious in dipping his pen into his inkstand.
  • It might almost be the glimpse of a stockinged leg with the impersonal passivity of ‘incautiously exposed’, suggesting a body ‘asking for it.’
  • And a senior official from the Economic Development and Trade Ministry called the idea ‘very incautious.’
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