temerarious

Example Sentences

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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

If he had been less temerarious perhaps to not have the support system of this whole chain—family, city, state, nation, and racial identification— might have posed a problem.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

He had patronised, snubbed, or encouraged High Mobsmen of more temerarious habit, had profited by their exploits, and had read of their convictions and sentences with placid interest in the morning papers.

From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur

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

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