foolhardy
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- s marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker
- If that act seemed foolhardy, it was nevertheless typical of Gallo, who never had the sense to play by the rigid rules of the brotherhood.
- The two scientists are not foolhardy enough to claim that a single gene can make a person homosexual.
- So many ideas and technological advances converged to create the modern computer that it is foolhardy to give one person the credit for inventing it.