audacity
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
audacity
- Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.
- The brash private had the audacity to criticize the general.
- Somebody never pays his loans, yet he has the audacity to ask the bank for money.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855 ↗:
- “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
- Fearlessness, intrepid or daring, especially with confident disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
- (insolent boldness) audaciousness, outdaciousness, temerity
- French: audace, toupet, culot (familiar), impudence
- German: Kühnheit, Verwegenheit, Frechheit
- Portuguese: audácia
- Russian: сме́лость
- Spanish: audacia, desfachatez
- French: audace, culot (familiar)
- German: Wagemut
- Portuguese: audácia
- Russian: бесстра́шие
- Spanish: osadía, audacia
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