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Rash

noun

Any red eruption of the skin. Synonyms: efflorescence, roseola, skin rash.

A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences. Synonym: blizzard. "A blizzard of lawsuits"

adjective

(compar. rasher; superl. rashest)

Imprudently incurring risk.

Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences. Synonyms: foolhardy, heady, reckless. "Became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans" , "A reckless driver" , "A rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"

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"Rash" Quotes from Famous Books

... the need for caution. The boys had the edge taken off their rash ardour long before, but that sinister warning from the forest in the shape of the arrow had driven home again the lesson that it was necessary to be ...

— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville

... the day of Ulm, unique in its kind, if he had shrunk from shedding blood; it is rather to be regarded as only a second crop from the victorious events in his preceding campaigns. It is not only bold, rash, and presumptuous Generals who have sought to complete their work by the great venture of a decisive battle, but also fortunate ones as well; and we may rest satisfied with the answer which they have thus given to this ...

— On War • Carl von Clausewitz

... expense of innocence. He still continued to be eminently successful in play, of which he did not perceive the evil, nor allow the wickedness; but he was unfortunate in love, in which he was equally unscrupulous and more rash than at the gaming-table. ...

— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton

... Marque were headed westward. A week later no news of either pursuer or pursued having been received, considerable uneasiness was manifested in court and suffragette circles, and it was freely rumoured that Lady Guernsey had made a rather rash but thoroughly characteristic vow that she would never relinquish the trail until she had forced Lord Marque to eat his own words, written in frosting upon a plum cake of ...

— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers

... his hand, but Philippe, without seeming to notice it, said, "Here comes the queen, sir." As she approached, she fixed her looks on Charny with that rash openness which she always showed in her affections, while she said to several gentlemen who were pressing round her, "Ask me what you please, gentlemen, for to-day I can refuse nothing." A voice said, "Madame." She turned, and saw Philippe, and thus ...

— The Queen's Necklace • Alexandre Dumas pere

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