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
For even within the limits of the Three Gases, Plattner's practical chemistry was, I understand, temerarious.
From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Had any temerarious soul assured him that his dramas would survive and endure by virtue of their music alone, it is easy to fancy his mingled incredulity and anger.
From Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries by Lawrence Gilman
Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent?
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
