incautiously


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in·cau·tious

 (ĭn-kô′shəs)
adj.
Not cautious; rash.

in·cau′tious·ly adv.
in·cau′tious·ness n.
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Adv.1.incautiously - without caution or prudence; "one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands"
cautiously, carefully - as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact; "she ventured cautiously downstairs"; "they handled the incident with kid gloves"
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Translations

incautiously

[ɪnˈkɔːʃəslɪ] ADVincautamente, imprudentemente
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incautiously

[ɪnˈkɔːʃəsli] adv [speak, ask] → imprudemment, inconsidérément
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All I know is that one evening, entering incautiously the salon of the little house just after the news of a considerable Carlist success had reached the faithful, I was seized round the neck and waist and whirled recklessly three times round the room, to the crash of upsetting furniture and the humming of a valse tune in a warm contralto voice.
'On my honor and my oath, he will be married!' The admiral, incautiously perhaps, but with the best intentions, told her you were married already.
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 shown.
This he followed, most incautiously. He came to the stone steps leading upward to the higher level.
One of the members of the committee incautiously admitted this.
"'Perhaps some less precious one than that was!' I quite incautiously replied."
I have known him do it," says Grandfather Smallweed incautiously, "twenty times."
Catherick was in possession of the Secret, I easily understood that it was Sir Percival's interest to keep her at Welmingham, because her character in that place was certain to isolate her from all communication with female neighbours, and to allow her no opportunities of talking incautiously in moments of free intercourse with inquisitive bosom friends.
The quick eyes of the Mohicans caught the dark line of his lower limbs incautiously exposed through the thin foliage, a few inches from the trunk of the tree.
"It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are coming to us of their own accord," incautiously remarked the little princess on hearing the news.
Incautiously her head had risen to the middle of the window.
Celia's face had the shadow of a pouting expression in it, the full presence of the pout being kept back by an habitual awe of Dorothea and principle; two associated facts which might show a mysterious electricity if you touched them incautiously. To her relief, Dorothea's eyes were full of laughter as she looked up.