ballsy

Example Sentences

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“They’re pretty ballsy, but they know what they’re doing.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 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

That title is a ballsy rejoinder if you think about it.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2022

I never questioned that we should be those things when I grew up, because women were very rock ’n’ roll where I came from, very forthright and very funny and ballsy and tough.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

Cicero’s defense was ballsy to the point of recklessness.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith