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Recent Examples of incautious His father, Chuck, played with an incautious tenacity by Patton Oswalt, has been desperately trying to get a hold of him. Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2022 The Spanish field commander, a famously incautious general named Manuel Fernández Silvestre, perished in the melee, possibly by suicide. Frederic Wehrey, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2021 As the vaccinated and the incautious head out on vacation there has been a run on rental cars in Hawaii that has pushed rates for rental cars above $200 per day. Annie White, Car and Driver, 30 Apr. 2021 Pence has far more practice, and a rare gift at translating some of the president’s more callous, inflammatory or incautious statements into ordinary GOP-speak. Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 8 Oct. 2020 See All Example Sentences for incautious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incautious
Adjective
  • The team held a multiple-point lead with seconds to go, but careless defense and turnovers cost them.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Top-four defencemen Darnell Nurse and Jake Walman were also careless with the puck at times.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • McKell said the new law targets life coaches who had lost their therapist licenses because the state deemed them unsafe to work with patients.
    Jessica Schreifels, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The building has been unsafe to occupy due to asbestos and other issues for all but a few weeks since.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Democrats slammed the Signal chat as a reckless violation of secrecy that could have put service members in harm’s way.
    Stephen Groves, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Marcantonio faces four counts of first-degree reckless endangerment and a single count each of reckless driving, failure to maintain the proper lane and first-degree manslaughter.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Incautious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incautious. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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