Guarded

Usage examples of cautious.

David the developer and Abraham a clear thinker with a cautious mind, his steady right arm.

Cautious, conservative by nature, Dickinson was, as Adams had noted, a distinctive figure, tall and exceptionally slender, with almost no color in his face.

Jefferson had been slower, more cautious and ambivalent than Adams about resolving his views on independence.

Was he simply being cautious, or did he feel -- as Ahl did -- that the island brooded and held secrets?

I was struck cold and cautious, asudden aware of the dangerous ground upon which I trod.

But in the very cramped quarters aboard the schooner he was using to supervise the landing of his troops at Bayou Bienvenu, his movements had become downright cautious.

They made their cautious way toward the bridgeway with Reacher and the prowlers afoot, eliminating the occasional sentry without commotion.

Michael Cagliari, the national security adviser, took a cautious approach.

The action of these conventions was deliberate, cautious, and careful.

Joesai had been a foil to bring out the most deadly counterthrust of the Mnankrei and now they had made it and Bendaein would know what he was up against and respond to that, Bendaein the Cautious.

Princeton College, whose influence, more New Englandish than New England, directed by a succession of illustrious Yale graduates in full sympathy with the advanced theology of the revival, was counted on to withstand the more cautious orthodoxy of Yale.

In that time he had not only conserved what Flenser built, he extended it beyond the cautious beginnings.

He turned toward the headrail, gave it a cautious tap with his left index finger, then another.

This was the period of the year when the Rockland people were most cautious of wandering in the leafier coverts which skirted the base of The Mountain, and the farmers liked to wear thick, long boots, whenever they went into the bushes.

Be cautious of wineries that tell you they can ship to nonreciprocal states, and make sure you get a firm commitment.