incautiously
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From incautious + -ly.
Pronunciation
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Adverb
[edit]incautiously (comparative more incautiously, superlative most incautiously)
- In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 13, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shewn.
- 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, “Chapter 2”, in Through the Brazilian Wilderness[1], New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 41:
- […] the piranhas habitually attack things much larger than themselves. They will snap a finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the water […]
- 2008, Jewel L. Spangler, “Chapter 2”, in Virginians Reborn: Anglican monopoly, Evangelical dissent, and the rise of the Baptists in the late Eighteenth Century[2], Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, page 43:
- The parson explained that the dissenters were insufficiently grounded in religious learning, inappropriately eager to administer the sacraments without his help or sanction, and incautiously emotional in their worship.
Antonyms
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[edit]without caution
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