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.
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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.
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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)
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
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)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.