ballsy
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“They’re pretty ballsy, but they know what they’re doing.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
Their songs were ballsy, anarchic and defiantly anti-boredom - from the two-finger salute of No Good Advice to the melancholy beauty of Call The Shots.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
“She was really ballsy about wanting to invite those readings into the movie,” he says, “the incredible sense of disquiet that the script presented to her as a reader.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
“It was ballsy and real,” the literary agent and author Bill Clegg said in an email.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2020
Cicero’s defense was ballsy to the point of recklessness.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
But I’m also richer, more powerful and ballsier than everyone else.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2016
You might expect J. Edgar to trump The Private Files with even ballsier revelations or, taking the high road, more elevated insights.
From Time ● Nov. 8, 2011
It’s something Jensen calls “the ballsiest thing I’ve ever seen a person do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
“I think it's probably one of the ballsiest moves that has ever been made in the history of the hip-hop business,” says hip-hop historian Jeff Chang, author of the book Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2014
The conference prank isn't even their ballsiest, or their funniest.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2012
Ladies and gentlemen, the ballsiest letter ever written.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2012
The result is the blackest, ballsiest political comedy since Dr. Strangelove.
From Time ● Nov. 19, 2010
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