ballsy
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As if releasing a pro-stealing film in a very anti-theft corporate culture weren’t ballsy enough, radical filmmaker Boots Riley grabs everything from the kitchen sink and tosses it into the blender for “I Love Boosters.”
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
“One intensely sad and angry and insecure, the other a ballsy bravado performance for public consumption.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
"I walked by it, and I thought that going for it was going to be ballsy, but the fact that he pulled it off and even had a birdie look was just incredible."
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2022
And that is ballsy for somebody to say that.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
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
You said earlier to me that people say you're ballsy because you met with El Chapo, but this is the ballsiest thing you've ever done.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2019
Yet there Ibaka was, suited up and ready to play Game 3, one of the quickest recoveries, worst misdiagnoses or ballsiest team fabrications in NBA playoff history.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2014
“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 result is the blackest, ballsiest political comedy since Dr. Strangelove.
From Time ● Nov. 19, 2010
