(a.) Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was Lindsay's misfortune to serve as mayor of America's biggest city at the height of the urban crisis brought on by the coincidence of racial conflict, labour unrest, rashly generous liberal reforms, fiscal improvidence and political confusion.
(2) The question this raised for aficionados of supreme court procedure is whether the court might use a device called "dismissing a case as improvidently granted".
(3) A minimal theoretical training is essential in order to prevent delusions caused by an improvident autodidactic approach.
Incautious
Definition:
(a.) Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those of most importance involve interaction with guanethidine-type agents and tricyclic antidepressants, amphetamine-type anorexiants or phenolpropanolamine-type common cold remedies; combined use of potassium retaining diuretics with potassium supplements; and incautious use of diuretics with cardiac glycosides.
(2) But there’s another set of rationalizations: we would never undertake such risky behavior; we would never live in such a neighborhood, work for such a company, visit such a fallen or disreputable establishment; we would never befoul ourselves with incautiousness as to almost welcome the violence.
(3) They are among other things, active, striving, assertive, in touch with and free to express emotion, rebellious, incautious, self-determing, productive, motivated to influence others, and excelling in producing objects or ideas which are unique.
(4) This behaviour of rat small intestine showing even greater hypersecretion in the refed state than the starved mimics the human condition of alimentary induced diarrhoea where incautious feeding of starved humans induces severe, often lethal diarrhoea.
(5) It is not about dousing the incautious poor with houses, rather helping our old friends the middling rich.
(6) The imminent risk of falsely estimating, say, the effects of therapy by incautious sampling and insufficient number of observations is described in the present communication.
(7) They are explored with emphasis on the exercise of self-assessment by the involved forensic psychiatrists lest their incautious application of knowledge and expertise become pitfalls of their own making.
(8) In a speculative and somewhat incautious frame of mind, I have tried to explore the question: What is autism?
(9) It's this generous and incautious spirit that makes the arts in this country exceptional.
(10) In particular, it appears that if a female engages in any behaviour deemed to be 'incautious' that results in victimization then she may be perceived to be at fault, even though these behaviours would be 'legitimate' for males, and that prior romantic involvement with the attacker mitigates the perceived seriousness of, and may even be seen as supplying justification for, a sexual attack.
(11) Every time growth is forecast to be slower and borrowing higher, this government's reckless and incautious plan loses more and more credibility.
(12) Demented women moving about daily, frail women, and incautious men and women seemed to be the main risk groups for repeated falling.
(13) Can Wilshaw justify the incautious and injudicious methods Ofsted's inspectors have used?
(14) Your failure to abide by the guidance [was] casual and incautious.