temerarious

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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

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

Had any temerarious soul assured him that his dramas would survive and endure by virtue of their music alone, it is easy to fancy his mingled incredulity and anger.

From Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries by Gilman, Lawrence

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)

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