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incautiously

[ UK /ɪnkˈɔːʃəsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. without caution or prudence
    one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands

How To Use incautiously In A Sentence

  • In addition, Mr. Safdie has incautiously stackied the dramatic deck in favor of Shlaminger's adversaries. Not in My Front Yard
  • 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
  • It might almost be the glimpse of a stockinged leg with the impersonal passivity of ‘incautiously exposed’, suggesting a body ‘asking for it.’
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ‘But you are a character in one of them,’ my friend incautiously remarked.
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