temerarious
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It might seem temerarious for an individual to buck the world's greatest oil companies, but not when the individual was Gulbenkian; he was an old hand at it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bernard Shaw finished editing and returned a collection of 100-odd Shaw sayings to Cyril Clemens, a temerarious admirer from Kirkwood, Mo. Shaw denied some of the items, okayed others, rewrote a few more.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had orders not to admit any gentleman visitor till after twelve o'clock, from which he drew the temerarious conclusion that he was free to admit ladies up to that hour.
From A Hungarian Nabob by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
Primarily and supremely man is always the pioneer of life, adventuring onward into the unknown, alone with his own temerarious, dauntless soul.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent?
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
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