chutzpah

Example Sentences

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He added: "Nigel Farage has chutzpah to return to the stage and say 'things are disastrous, and I'm the person to fix it'."

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Launching a business without your knowledge when you were about to give birth takes some chutzpah.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Then you work up the chutzpah to share it with other people.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

“He had the chutzpah to actually do something spectacular, which certain people find attractive and courageous,” said Jeff Goodwin, a New York University professor who studies social movements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

It coquettishly combines 1920s chutzpah and eighteenth-century courtly dance, quoting along the way actual music by eighteenth-century Italian composers.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall