temerarious

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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

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

Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent?

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

This, according to the cardinals, "is scandalous, temerarious, impious, and erroneous."

From Books Fatal to Their Authors by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Hopes, fears, anticipations were exchanged, but cautiously and in whispers, like young bathers who test the chill of the sea with bent, temerarious toes.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)