audacity

Example Sentences

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"She was incensed, just really struck by the audacity of stealing a building and flippantly said: 'You should make this into a game'," Myres told the BBC.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

But no; half the time, corporations have the audacity to charge a service fee on top of the money they have saved by not hiring someone to do the work you, the consumer, just did.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

Gets an extra mark for the audacity of batting at number three.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

No one has the audacity to try to unseat him, or even to say that he won’t be in charge forever.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025

Herbie had the audacity, or the stupidity, to ask.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols