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

It may be so, but the quest is temerarious.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

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 Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Only the most temerarious ever ventured to ask a forecast of Mrs. Owen's plans.

From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)