foolhardy
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Walk into one such event and you are perpetually being sold on a single, perhaps foolhardy decision that could change at least the next few years of your life.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
His attempts to strike out independently and build his own house fail spectacularly—the first in a storm of lightning and winged ants, the second in a foolhardy scheme to clear the surrounding brush with fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Valuing a company that hasn’t made money at $1.8 trillion seems aggressive at best, foolhardy at worst.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits after Thanksgiving jumped to a three-month high, but it’s foolhardy to judge the overall health of the labor market on holiday seasons.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
I knew it was foolhardy for me to leave Fort Hare, but at the moment I needed to compromise, I simply could not do so.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Only the foolhardiest would step up to Black Twitter, for example, and demand that it be more welcoming to non–African Americans.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018
They leaned this way and that, the fronts of some thrust outward at an angle to forbid any but the foolhardiest from passing underneath.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
We cooked some eggs on it, to show our unconcern, and while we were cooking them up came an American, who had pitched camp in the foolhardiest spot.
From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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