How to Use incautious in a Sentence

incautious

adjective

• 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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