(a.) Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.
(a.) Given as a pledge or as security.
(a.) Wary; cautious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today Savina said she did not think her experience was a cautionary tale for journalists working on the Lebedev-owned Evening Standard, who might be anxious about their jobs.
(2) The most cautionary example would be BBC2's Petrolheads, a short-lived motoring panel show hosted by Neil Morrissey.
(3) It is part horror-show, part cautionary tale, and partly heroic example.
(4) Vorster reads from a cautionary note in the manual: Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) #oscartrial Vorster reads cautionary statement from DSM5 that the manual shouldn't be used in forensic settings.
(5) Lastly, a paediatric orbital fibrous histiocytoma is a cautionary anecdote with successful outcome.
(6) One of the great cautionary adages of our culture is: "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it."
(7) If Ireland was held up at the beginning of the year by economists across Europe as a role model in how to cut fast and efficiently, the country is increasingly being showcased, particularly by the left in the UK, as a cautionary tale in the perils of cutting too much, too fast.
(8) The impending publication of the putative nude pictures, a humiliation that turned out to be a bluff, might have pulled Watson down among the lower orders of former child stars, those people who now exist in the public consciousness merely as cautionary tales to scare naughty teenagers: “Look what happened to Bieber today!”; “Did you see Cyrus in that outfit?” Although Watson has put her head above the parapet before, the provocation cited by the hoaxers was the New York speech she gave last Monday promoting the HeForShe campaign and arguing that gender discrimination harms both men and women.
(9) Films such as Inside Llewyn Davis, which won great acclaim at Cannes in 2013 but failed to make a mark at the Golden Globes or Oscars act as cautionary tales.
(10) Cautionary notes are offered concerning those cases in which gay litigants try to protect their rights by inhibiting the speech of others.
(11) With one Premier League goal for Liverpool since his £16m arrival from Milan and more public criticism from his manager than telling performances for the team, Balotelli is the spectacular transfer’s cautionary tale.
(12) Whether she's pitching her own feminist rap video or reading us her cautionary rewrite of The Ugly Duckling, her self-deprecating anecdotal style invites us to laugh at her middle-class embarrassment while she slips some important truths past.
(13) When Mourinho withdrew Drogba in injury- time, allowing him to enjoy a personal ovation from all corners of the ground, the cautionary finger raised to the manager's lips as he greeted his player seemed to suggest that Drogba had done his talking where it counted.
(14) Cautionary points and broad recommendations are made with regard to use of anti Leu M1 antibody.
(15) Cautionary attention is drawn to the danger of allowing these retinal hot spots to be imaged on or near the macula during surgery.
(16) The Bilibid episode remains, however, as a cautionary tale for those engaged in clinical research.
(17) Well done, Arron.” It also turns out the sack of Rome wasn’t one Breaking Point poster short of a perfect EU cautionary tale.
(18) Hers is a cautionary tale in an era when it is possible to boast about sexual indiscretions, confess heartbreak or depression, or exact revenge against ex-lovers to a worldwide audience.
(19) They believe they have a good idea about who the core readership is, and one of the ways they prise a reaction from that readership is through shrieked alerts and cautionary tales about The Other.
(20) The outcome suggests that cautionary advice to pregnant women warning that any alcohol taken during pregnancy is potentially harmful to the fetus is inaccurate and therefore probably counterproductive.
Cautious
Definition:
(a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(2) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(3) He looks set to become a stronger leader than his cautious predecessor, Hu Jintao, but he is no radical reformer, experts say.
(4) Cautious fluid administration and observation for cardiopulmonary deterioration are crucial in management of the critically ill, high-risk group of HELLP syndrome patients with large-volume ascites.
(5) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(6) Banks have become particularly cautious of money transfer services such as Western Union , which are perceived as particularly open to abuse.
(7) Merkel is above all a cautious politician who recognises the limits of her power.
(8) But providers are cautious about participating in the Essential Access Community Hospital (EACH) program until final rules are published.
(9) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
(10) Elderly listeners exhibited less cautious response criteria than did younger listeners.
(11) Cautious welcome for changes DAC’s decisions have had a mixed reception.
(12) Green groups were hostile or reacted cautiously to the report.
(13) Darling, one of the Cabinet's Eeyores, took a more cautious view but even he has been surprised by the length, depth and breadth of the crisis.
(14) The test must therefore be applied cautiously to seronegative animals.
(15) Only selected samples were analyzed in 1973; therefore, these figures should be used only cautiously as trend data.
(16) Yet the mood on Friday night among the hundreds of (very young) party workers and activists was cautious.
(17) Cautious conclusion should advise to use Collins solution when there has not been a long warm ischemia.
(18) Interpretation must be cautious, because these analyses are based on relatively few cases and on single 24-h urine samples.
(19) The cautious study began with small extramarginal skin excisions and progressed gradually via moderate sized juxtamarginal excisions of skin and orbicularis lamella to full-thickness margin-inclusive excisions.
(20) But had it been couched in "more cautious terms or less certain terms may not have been capable of criticism at all".