temerarious
Example Sentences
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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 those days "Father Clement" was the issue of a superhuman effort at charity and fairness; and the author almost seemed to think an apology was needed for such temerarious liberalism.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by George Tyrrell
Only the most temerarious ever ventured to ask a forecast of Mrs. Owen's plans.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
The author of it is obscure, is ambiguous, is affected, is temerarious, is barbarous.'
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber
