foolhardy
adjective
recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
foolhardily
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a word derived from
foolhardy.
Example Sentences
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“The report foolhardily paints missing aspirational goals as a misuse of funds.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
A few years ago he foolhardily set out to bring big-time soccer to the soccer-resistant U.S., founded the International Soccer League.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Biarritz, 400 houses were flooded in one day, and in the Somme department, a vacationer died of exposure when he foolhardily went swimming.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surely never men thrust themselves foolhardily into worse predicament!
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
There must be some probability of success: for it would be criminally rash to expose one’s self foolhardily to certain destruction and, to avoid a lesser evil, throw one’s self into a greater.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
