overboldness

Example Sentences

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The fair girl knitted her brows in a frown at his overboldness.

From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

His large nature, impetuously reacting from the asceticism to which he had been bred, turned to excess and overboldness in action, and an occasional coarseness of phrasing in his poems.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

Thirdly come one or two significant admissions of overboldness in matters of criticism, as where he retracts his censure of Raphael's Parnassus in Letter XXXIII.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Either from overboldness in the metaphors, or from some unaptness in the material of them, I have to confess that my mind rather rebels against these stretches of poetical prerogative.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

But is there any potion which might serve as a test of overboldness and excessive and indiscreet boasting?

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin