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
I have confessed myself a temerarious theologian, and in that passage from boyhood to manhood I ranged widely in my search for some permanently satisfying Truth.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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)
He had orders not to admit any gentleman visitor till after twelve o'clock, from which he drew the temerarious conclusion that he was free to admit ladies up to that hour.
From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
