rashness

Example Sentences

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The 22-year-old - still younger than Robertson was when he arrived from Hull City in 2017 - removed some of the initial rashness from his game and was then consistently good defensively.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

In true teen fashion, Alice's rashness led to bad decision-making but "Shrinking" never scolds her for her pain or choices.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2024

A case was registered against Sharma by the New Delhi police for "rashness and negligent driving" said Reuters TV partner ANI.

From Reuters • Mar. 13, 2022

She is “censured for her rashness by the prison governor, who said he had never before heard of a case where a member of the victim’s family had become the criminal’s guarantor.”

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2019

I put my life at hazard there, which some might account valor; but I knew it for the rashness of despair, the precipitation of utter despondence.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson