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.
  • Thieves on foot or on motorbikes snatch cellphones from incautious tourists.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yet that may send the message that both borrowers and lenders can continue pursuing incautious practices in the expectation of a bailout.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Bannon told Kuttner, in an interview that was astonishing for its incautious honesty.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Second, signs are appearing that fund managers, desperate for higher yields, are becoming increasingly incautious.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Clearly, holding single parents legally responsible for incautious, negligent or irresponsible parenting could fill up jails and prisons and impoverish such families completely and radically.
    — Ellen Sauerbrey, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2025

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