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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
  • Although Hill initially received two tickets for careless driving and not wearing a seat belt, they were dismissed after the officer who cited him didn’t show up to the Miami-Dade traffic hearing.
    C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
  • Of those fires, 90% were caused by careless human activity, the agency said.
    Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • When something hurts or feels unsafe, your body tenses up to protect you (also known as muscle guarding).
    Cheyenne Buckingham, SELF, 13 May 2025
  • Feeling unsafe is debilitating, squashes our creativity, is discouraging and makes dealing with uncertainty so much more difficult.
    Sanjeev Menon, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Youngest brother Dante is reckless and indebted to dangerous criminals.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • On Sunday, officers arrested the suspect in South San Francisco and booked him into San Mateo County jail on charges of hit-and-run causing injury and reckless evading.
    Jason Green, Mercury News, 14 May 2025

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“Incautious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incautious. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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