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

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

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

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

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 Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)