foolhardy

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

So they’ve been trying to talk their leaders out of this foolhardy mission.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

They rarely ventured into the water near the village, preferring to stay in the area near the swamp, so only the foolhardy were at risk of being dragged into the Sogozha’s depths.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir