Such musings may reflect an absurdly incautious optimism.
The recently implemented administrative reforms, although readily defended on grounds of economy and efficiency, may prove to be incautious and ill-timed.
Scientific advice and quota-setting have been incautious, with total allowable catches being set far above scientific recommendations.
It would be incautious to make ex cathedra statements.
At a moment of incautious speech—which we all experience—he said that the union and the employer should get together and agree.
I have, however, gone into the matter very carefully since, and would prefer your statements were described as incautious instead of misleading.
Because of this, in my view it is incautious to assume that precautions which have been adequate elsewhere are necessarily adequate here.
One finds to one's disappointment, and to the bitterness of the audience that listened a few years before, that those incautious promises cannot be delivered.