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Doing things without fear or proper thought
act of bravado
bravado
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daredevil
desperado
hotheadedness
impetuosity
impetuous
impetuously
impetuousness
precipitancy
precipitant
precipitate
precipitately
precipitation
rashness
reckless
trigger-happy
unafraid
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foolhardy | American Dictionary

foolhardy
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/ˈfulˌhɑrd·i/
taking unnecessary or foolish risks:
He made a foolhardy attempt to climb the tree to recover his kite.

Examples of foolhardy

foolhardy
It would be foolhardy to suggest that affordable registration and titling will by itself restrain predatory state functionaries from encroaching on farmer rights.
It would have been foolhardy to present the delegates as anything other than the worthy lawmakers they claimed to be.
To credit all online activity with this impact is foolhardy.
Nowhere in these documents is the foolhardy riverboat captain or locomotive engineer told directly why he should slow down.
The opposite behaviour, ' improvising' a speech unrehearsed and without regard for the audience and the occasion, was equally foolhardy and condemned.
Now we generally tolerate inappropriate behavior so long as no one within the institution is foolhardy enough to blow a whistle.
As the price of a foolhardy plan your unhappy rival feels your wrath; but, most deadly avenger, for what do you punish me?
If a child lacks self-esteem only a foolhardy therapist would recommend organ donation as appropriate treatment.
At our present stage of inquiry (perhaps at any stage), it is foolhardy to imagine that we have arrived.
In particular, it would be foolhardy here to plunge into the treacherous currents surrounding "political liberalism" as a general theory or position.
Ridgeologists, on the other hand, think that it is okay to be uncertain, a position which counters find foolhardy and even dangerous.
But it is foolhardy to extrapolate from two points.
But he did not simply speak a pre-composed speech word for word, for to do so was dangerous, even foolhardy.
The (single-case non-statistical) tendency of the ice to break under the foolhardy skater has a direction in this profane sense.
Giving advice about medication or management regarding a patient with delirium, based on a single assessment without such collateral history, would be foolhardy in the extreme.
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