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

It seems as though in all that he is doing there is nothing temerarious except the enterprise itself.

From Kościuszko A Biography by Gardner, Monica M. (Monica Mary)

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)

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)