Incautiousness Definition & Meaning

Examples of incautious in a Sentence

He offended several people with his incautious remarks. Their incautious behavior is going to get them into trouble someday.

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 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 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 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 Image If nothing else, Mr. Tester is incautious, at least compared to most of the other Senate Democrats up for re-election this fall in states that Mr. Trump won big. — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 3 June 2018 See More

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