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

He awaited results with a mixed interest, but the farther history of that temerarious despatch he never learned.

From The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by Milne, James

It may be so, but the quest is temerarious.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

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