incautiouslyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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incautiously (comparative more incautiously, superlative most incautiously)

1. 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, 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, 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.

反意語

• cautiously