incautiously

comparative more incautiously · superlative most incautiously

1. In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.

   […] the piranhas habitually attack things much larger than themselves. They will snap a finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the water […]

   1914, Theodore Roosevelt, “Chapter 2”, in Through the Brazilian Wilderness, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 41

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   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.

   1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 13, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC

   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.

   2008, Jewel L. Spangler, “Chapter 2”, in Virginians Reborn: Anglican monopoly, Evangelical dissent, and the rise of the Baptists in the late Eighteenth Century, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, page 43