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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adventurism
noun
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▪ But above all Fitzgerald envied Hemingway's vigorous worldliness, his swagger and adventurism.
▪ The great majority of revolutionary populists resolutely rejected the deception and unprincipled adventurism of a few untypical deviants like Nechaev.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
adventurism

adventurism \adventurism\ n. 1. recklessness in politics or foreign affairs.

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adventurism

n. 1 The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. (from 19th c.) 2 (context politics English) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. (from 20th c.)

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adventurism

n. recklessness in politics or foreign affairs

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Adventurism

Adventurism is a pejorative term referring to politics, business or activism that involves reckless or irresponsible behavior or conduct pursued only in the interest of excitement. Adventurism is often used as a criticism against some government's policies. Countries pursuing foreign wars of dubious merit or which have little chance of success have often been accused of adventurism by opponents.

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He exulted in the pyrotechnical complexities of Berlioz and Wagner, the rich orchestrations of Brahms and Rachmaninoff, the lyricism of Dvorak and Mendelssohn, the tonal adventurism of Ravel and Debussy, and fused them into a style all his own.

There used to be a kind of adventurism in the excitement they sought, the power boat racing, desert car rallies, polar trekking.

Urban's adventurism, they apparently had one, though it wasn't working well.

In 1980, months before Reagan would be elected president, Harvard Sovietologist Adam Ulam ruefully remarked that the Soviets' expanding empire could not be stopped unless faced with "a power strong and determined enough to make Soviet foreign adventurism too risky and expensive.