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    foolhardy


    1. As long as she was in the main thoroughfare it would be difficult if not downright foolhardy for anyone to attack her … but there was a stretch just the other side of the river where the pedestrian path separated from the road, sloping down into a sort of culvert … a subway … if I were going to ambush someone, that’s where I’d choose


    2. downright foolhardy here in the mountains


    3. When Torbin had set off alone on his rescue mission, Roidon was drifting between a state of unconsciousness and a vague dreamlike awareness that his compatriot was about to do something foolhardy


    4. A decision that, even to himself, seemed foolhardy


    5. They second-guessed his opting for a remote interface would be foolhardy


    6. Her decision seemed foolhardy given her previous experience


    7. It sounded foolhardy and unnecessarily risky, her mind told her


    8. the Pongwart would cleverly shed its outer jellified layer once it was inside a host and continue to feast itself on the foolhardy


    9. But none are so foolhardy or so desperate as to try something like this


    10. And Solomon chose a different course, he chose a direction some in his day would have considered foolhardy because it was alien to their culture

    11. She must therefore be mistaken in her fears and she would not be so foolhardy as to name them


    12. With foolhardy decisions like this from the replacement Commander there may yet be some hope of a breakout


    13. “Damn!” He cursed his ignorance and foolhardy jealously


    14. Again and again would he stand out against some project as being foolhardy and presumptuous; he would debate to the bitter end, but when Andrew would put the proposition to a vote, and after the twelve would elect to do that which he had so strenuously opposed, Thomas was the first to say, "Let's go!" He was a good loser


    15. While his wife thought he was foolhardy, Vidya felt he had the guts to live up to his principles


    16. This was a city that would last forever; in all of Mesoamerica there was no enemy strong enough or foolhardy enough to think of standing against Teotihuacan


    17. The crowd gasped, nobody as long as they could remember had ever spoken to Yaotl in this manner and to suggest, of his own free will that he look into the mirror breastplate, was either very foolhardy or very brave, to open your soul in this way must indeed mean that the charges were false, the villagers began to applaud


    18. In any case, Sir Dudley refused to even contemplate that the Germans would be foolhardy enough to try and bring their ships through the Dover Straits in daylight


    19. Now fearing the worst for the two foolhardy men, the mother watched them start to collect and sling the troopers abandoned weapons and ammunition


    20. I could not keep him from following my foolhardy little brother into those dangerous deserts

    21. Nick, not feeling quite so brave, or foolhardy, placed the regulator into his mouth, then lowered himself over the side slowly


    22. Tom was not foolhardy, and if he was having casual sex would take precautions


    23. While Nehru’s foolhardy in taking the Kashmir issue all the way to the United Nations and his credulity of a plebiscite pledge therein, it was Patel, who had coerced the recalcitrant Nizam and other vacillating Rajas, into the Union of India


    24. Even as he said it Aesa knew it was foolhardy


    25. But what wisdom is necessary to birth a compassionate higher consciousness; what foolhardy ignorance required to create a god without heart or empathy? What culture will embrace, what wisdom can comform the emerging meta-human consciousness we are being called to obsessively construct the necessary conditions for? What must be the creed of that wisdom culture? A culture of and for what? Are we the type of culture that can give rise to Techine and survive or coexist with it?


    26. Her injuries needed to be treated right away, any delays would be foolhardy


    27. An instant later every gun held by the hired men was pointed at Jacob, and Jones laughed at the foolhardy display


    28. That would plainly be foolhardy


    29. ‘This is a foolhardy quest


    30. foundation in fact would be foolhardy at best

    31. I didn’t expect it would come so soon; that you would be so foolhardy


    32. accepted in cultured circles that therefore any attempt in doing so is fruitless and foolhardy


    33. One of the conclusions that I have come to is that it is very foolhardy to try and make any short term predictions in the market


    34. convincing the Dortians that wars were only for the foolhardy, you can understand why


    35. “There are pitfalls for the foolhardy, but the pathways are wide


    36. It is utterly foolhardy to think that someone who could readily and willingly kill other


    37. “There is bravery and there is foolhardy


    38. future identities in any symbolic prophecies would have been absolutely foolhardy and unthinkable


    39. ‘It is foolhardy to play games with me,’ hissed Lucien


    40. They had started off well enough, in spite of some resistance from cities like Thorncut and Dalandaniss, as well as an obvious reluctance by O'Connor towards using the ogres as a means to deter those foolhardy enough to oppress his ideals

    41. Yes, I did know that! I knew this man was daring to the point of being foolhardy


    42. As usual, the outlaws had suffered only minor injuries, a few cuts and bruises inflicted by the more foolhardy of their victims


    43. Some of them had been drinking heavily, no doubt; but the prospect of laying hands on so much wealth made them absurdly foolhardy, and, at the same time, extremely anxious


    44. The pupils wondered if this foolhardy boy had lost his mind


    45. But when he would have entered the blackness of the undergrowth they tried to dissuade him; and the wagerer was most insistent of all that he abandon his foolhardy venture


    46. That second start was the most foolhardy thing I ever did


    47. "If even with the help of authority we have a hard struggle against the anti-Christian elements ever ready to overpower us, and destroy all the progress made by civilization, how then could public opinion prove an efficient substitute for the use of force, and avail for our protection? To rely upon public opinion alone would be as foolhardy as to let loose all the wild beasts of a menagerie, because they seem inoffensive when in their cages and held in awe by red-hot irons


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    Synonyms for "foolhardy"

    foolhardy heady rash reckless hasty headlong indiscreet precipitate thoughtless

    "foolhardy" definitions

    marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences