temerarious
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of temerarious
1525–35; < Latin temerārius, equivalent to temer ( e ) blindly, heedlessly + -ārius -ary
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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
Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent?
From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell
A little teasing was generally necessary, but the resistance today had begun to look ominous and Alec, as we know, too temerarious, had retired in disorder to the woodpile.
From The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Hopes, fears, anticipations were exchanged, but cautiously and in whispers, like young bathers who test the chill of the sea with bent, temerarious toes.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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