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View definitions for cautiously

cautiously

adverb as in tentatively

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British commanders then, and British writers later, would maintain they had moved too cautiously.

What makes Noah mildly ambivalent, yet cautiously optimistic?

Brakey was cautiously optimistic about his chances in November.

The pilots cautiously edge their way to maximum speed in stages.

Read this if you want to spend the rest of your life cautiously rubbing your neck.

There was no response to the knock, and Davy cautiously pushed open the door and went in.

She stood at the head of the stairs; she went down a few steps, and listened; then cautiously she descended.

The lascar moved his feet cautiously, and they rustled among dried stumps.

Cautiously we retraced our steps from the lower end of the flat, and turned into the narrow mouth of the canyon.

For he suspects from his silence that he has so over-cautiously conducted matters that he wishes to conceal his actions.'

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