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adj. - Of or pertaining to dangerous, capricious, or haphazard improvisation or experimentation

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Usage examples (18)
  • The Warsaw uprising, as Jan Ciechanowski has decisively demonstrated, was a political and ideological attempt (Stalin's word was "adventuristic") to liberate the capital...
  • We knew it was deadly serious, but until you see somebody actually killed, it has a certain adventuristic aspect to it.
  • The growth of the USSR's might created a firm obstacle in the way of imperialisms adventuristic, belligarent aggressive policy.
  • McCain, meanwhile, does not recognize these issues as problems in need of urgent resolution, and has proposed an even more adventuristic approach to intelligence.
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