rashness

Example Sentences

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A manager, that for all the rashness and wrath of the past, some team-mates say is answering his calling.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

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

He justified his rashness to his parents, claiming he was gathering material to write the Great American Novel.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2020

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