incautiously

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English incautious Middle English -ly English -ly English incautiously From incautious + -ly.

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

   “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.”

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