FOOLHARDY


Meaning of FOOLHARDY in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Holding onto a moving car while wearing skates is illegal and foolhardy .

I drove to the hospital at a foolhardy speed, arriving just after my wife.

It was foolhardy to take the plane up alone, with so little flying experience.

The country was in such huge debt that any spending proposals looked foolhardy .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Alarmed, and thinking that my President needed me, I dashed to get there, driving at foolhardy speed.

As you said, it is in the nature of young men to be foolhardy and impetuous.

Call it foolhardy or brilliant or shocking or crazy.

He accepted he'd been grossly stupid and foolhardy .

I thought the idea was totally foolhardy .

It would be foolhardy to try and reach Chimneys, alone and on foot, in this weather.

Small wonder if their son grew up with a taste for chivalrous pursuits, warlike deeds and sometimes foolhardy enterprise.

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