incautious

Example Sentences

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We’re a long way from those incautious days.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Even the animals are distinctive—especially Kōkī, the pet parrot who acts like a Shakespearean fool, squawking incautious truths to Tongan authority.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

He delighted in being candid, blunt, deliberately provocative and incautious.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Where the other astronauts look upon Glenn as sanctimonious, he finds them incautious.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2020

Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent—he wouldn’t have lasted 113 days if he were.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer