as in careless
not paying or showing close attention especially for the purpose of avoiding trouble
an incautious comment got her in political hot water
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Recent Examples of incautious
And of course, panic made people incautious.
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Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
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
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Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2022
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incautious
Adjective
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Proof Carefully To Show Professionalism And Attention To Detail What gets my negative attention are résumés with careless errors—typos, missing words and inconsistent formatting.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Social media erupted in fear, and disgust, or simply threw shame his way for being careless.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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Playing in unsafe heat can cause immense stress to the body.—
Kalen Lumpkins,
Chicago Tribune,
25 July 2025
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In July, the city construction board declared the house an unsafe structure and gave the owners five days to fix the situation.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Aybar-Berroa also has a criminal history in New York City that includes arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
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He is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime in the teens' shooting deaths.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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“Incautious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incautious. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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