adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Holding onto a moving car while wearing skates is illegal and foolhardy .
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I drove to the hospital at a foolhardy speed, arriving just after my wife.
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It was foolhardy to take the plane up alone, with so little flying experience.
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The country was in such huge debt that any spending proposals looked foolhardy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alarmed, and thinking that my President needed me, I dashed to get there, driving at foolhardy speed.
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As you said, it is in the nature of young men to be foolhardy and impetuous.
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Call it foolhardy or brilliant or shocking or crazy.
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He accepted he'd been grossly stupid and foolhardy .
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I thought the idea was totally foolhardy .
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It would be foolhardy to try and reach Chimneys, alone and on foot, in this weather.
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Small wonder if their son grew up with a taste for chivalrous pursuits, warlike deeds and sometimes foolhardy enterprise.