An incautious remark. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"incautious" for giving in at once to the spirit doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
You think that I should be incautious -- imprudent. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
One incautious Georgian suggests 'Dixie,' he reckons. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
How could you be so incautious as to make a speech then?. From Wordnik.com. [The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt] Reference
The more incautious fell severed with a cut from shoulder to pap. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Now Nelsen had the result of his perhaps incautious test statement. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Horace spoke of incautious early risers getting nipped by the cold. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Beginning with an incautious personal and petty criticism of Russell the. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
July which do their best to abolish the incautious legs of patriotic youth. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870] Reference
Proctor: -- Prevost was excessively cautious: Proctor was incautious to excess. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Just for a moment it looked as if he were about to strike the incautious speaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Rocks, slipping beneath the bay's incautious hoofs, rattled down the steep slope. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
It was too true: the reckless expenditure of Mark, and the incautious good nature of Mr. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
But Clinton began his presidency in an undisciplined, incautious "second stage" fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Saxophone Vs. Sacrifice] Reference
We had been incautious, and we should take good care not to commit the same fault again. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
An incautious whisperer hazarded the paralysing suggestion of our "meeting another team.". From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
His eyes, ardently blue and tender and intense, danced with incautious gleams of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
She tried again to pass him but, taking incautious footing, slipped, and his arm saved her. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
The clatter became a roar as several of the raiders turned their guns on the incautious Hun. From Wordnik.com. [Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold] Reference
But, like the incautious bear, Bandy-legs had also leaned too far over the top of the chimney. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
Occasionally an incautious ironclad approached like a foolish hen, and pecked at the moving mass. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891] Reference
Woe betide the incautious traveller whom curiosity leads through the vineyards of that lonely scene!. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
The superreturns of recent years have made us incautious, but the chance of poor returns hasn't gone away. From Wordnik.com. [Next Big Issue:Heir Rights] Reference
Then the incautious movement of his questing fingers brought a sudden stab of raw, red agony and he moaned. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
But in 1998, he was incautious enough to question another Democratic sacred cow, teacher tenure in high schools. From Wordnik.com. [THE SOLITARY SOLDIER] Reference
This notice of what imperfection exists is necessary, so that no incautious purchaser may think that he is securing. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
He hoped Smithy would be sensible, and not betray him by an incautious exclamation, when he learned of his presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol] Reference
But as she started on, Tisdale reappeared at the curve and, waving her hand to reassure him, she took an incautious step. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
In their private residences also they were incautious enough to keep numerous documents of a most compromising character. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches from the Dock, Part I] Reference
Not imagining that they would be in a position to make serious resistance, we had been somewhat incautious in approaching. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
Any incautious information dropped by Allen or Sampson was likely to be immediately reported to the Confederate authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
Like some horribly effective piece of sculpture, the tableau in the box preserved the last gasp of an incautious youth in armor. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
For mistaken experiments can be discontinued; and great as is the danger in incautious radicalism, the danger in "standing pat" is greater. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Spoken if not 'in haste,' certainly 'out of the fulness of the heart,' that is caused by anger, it is, though unusually brief, delightfully incautious. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The incautious forger went off to his hotel with the promise in his ear, while the wary broker dropped in on the drawers of the draft to compare notes. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Ability to please is to these incautious subjects of it a most dangerous influence; and books as well as men when most attractive should be treated warily. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
He had gathered, so the local story ran, something like two hundred pounds, and he made an incautious brag of this fact in the bar-room of the old "Blue Posts," at Smethwick. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
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