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

In vain his officers showed him how temerarious was the venture, and how much more prudent it would be to make off with one rich prize than to court capture by overgreediness.

From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Lane-Poole, Stanley

Recovering my self-possession, I asked if there were modes of transit by which I could safely visit this temerarious and remote people.

From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And I write to you, not because I am temerarious, but because the month is April and the time is twilight.

From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti