temerarious

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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

To trace back to the Vedic period the origin of Hindu sectarianism would, indeed, be a nice task for a fine scholar, but it would not be temerarious to attempt it.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn

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

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

Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent?

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James