daringly

comparative more daringly · superlative most daringly

1. In a daring manner.

   “Here, waiter,” cried the Johnnie who had dejeunered daringly at 12, “take this bill to the manager and tell him it’s an imposition. Why, you’ve charged more for one poached egg on toast than for an entire portion of those eggs that you scramble.”

   1903 April 2, “Humourist”, in The Sydney Mail, volume LXXV, number 2222, Sydney, N.S.W., page 278, column 1

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   The corridor stinks of sweat and cigarette smoke, and I daringly open the window a little. The freshest air floats in, smelling of sappy grasses, the delicate pollens of wild flowers, the resins of the pine forests; hinting at the chill blue scent of distant snows.

   2013, Margaret Leroy, The English Girl, →ISBN

   Synonyms: boldly, courageously, fearlessly, impudently