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

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 Cibber, Theophilus

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

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