This perhaps incautious remark had roused the ire of the suffering monarch.

Forgive an incautious remark.'

Granted she is the leader of a party which likes to think that it invented tax cuts but it was an unhelpful and incautious remark.

Winona's share in the business might have remained concealed but for the indiscretion of Mamie, who by an incautious remark gave the show away entirely.