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  • adjective Not circumspect.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ circumspect

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Examples

  • Somehow it figures that the criminally uncircumspect Paris Hilton would be the one to spill the beans, at an MTV Video Music Awards party.

    Christina Aguilera Nude Marie Claire Photos Home Display 2007

  • Romney however needs yet another loud frantic bamboozlement to appear as a he-man to the uncircumspect barbarians that dwelleth beyond the Berkshires.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2005

  • All she knew was that she had behaved in a most uncircumspect manner and that now she was going to have to pay the price for it.

    LADY of SKYE PATRICIA CABOT 2001

  • A want of a due sense of sin in an uncircumspect walking; [3.]

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • In like manner we say, with regard to the irrational creatures, that lust is a certain uncircumspect and earthly passionate attachment, arising incontinently from an innate movement, or intimacy in things subject to change, and the irrational supremacy of the bodily desire, which drives the whole organism towards the object of sensual inclination.

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

  • "Know you not that by so doing in the hearing of that young man, and by such uncircumspect fashion of coming hither, you have disclosed yourself and utterly undone me?"

    For the Faith Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

  • If the wicked see the godly loose and uncircumspect in their lives, they think they may do so too.

    The Lord's Prayer 1692

  • 'Gentlemen,' quoth he, 'although you are my trusty and well-beloved friends, yet I cannot but a little chide you for your late uncircumspect action, in going out to gaze on that great and mighty force that but yesterday sat down before, and have now entrenched themselves in order to the maintaining of a siege against the famous town of Mansoul.

    The Holy war, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul John Bunyan 1658

  • 'Gentlemen,' quoth he, 'although you are my trusty and well-beloved friends, yet I cannot but a little chide you for your late uncircumspect action, in going out to gaze on that great and mighty force that but yesterday sat down before, and have now entrenched themselves, in order to the maintaining of a siege against, the famous town of Mansoul.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • The dark cloud of bold sinning, and careless uncircumspect walking, that cannot but eclipse the light of consolation, and fill the soul with some horror, anguish, and confusion.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

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