incautiously

Example Sentences

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“We’re incautiously optimistic—buy hot garbage,” advised none of the big investment firms a year ago in their 2025 outlooks.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

Those dreams range from cautiously optimistic to … incautiously optimistic.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2019

He was hurrying away to make good his promise, when I detained him, alarmed at the effect of incautiously rousing Turkey’s combativeness after dinner.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2015

In the Sungs’ view, this was a sign of innocence; to the D.A.’s office, it indicated only that the Sungs knew enough not to communicate as incautiously as the more recent immigrants they employed did.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015

He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine