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nerviness
noun as in impudence
Weak matches
- assumption
- assurance
- audaciousness
- audacity
- boldness
- brashness
- brass
- brazenness
- cheek
- cheekiness
- chutzpah
- cockiness
- crust
- defiance
- discourtesy
- disrespect
- disrespectfulness
- effrontery
- face
- familiarity
- forwardness
- gall
- guts
- gutsiness
- hardiness
- impertinence
- impudency
- incivility
- insolence
- moxie
- nerve
- overconfidence
- pertness
- presumptuousness
- pushiness
- rudeness
- sassiness
- sauciness
- shamelessness
- spunk
- stuff
- temerity
Example Sentences
He added: "Everyone in Western Europe has to a varying degree a nerviness about Muslims perpetrating some kind of mischief and reifying this sort of angst in the Party's context gets us nowhere… we are endeavouring to be a broad and representative party."
But as the danger thickens Reis easily matches Foster’s nerviness.
The sheer nerviness of this assertion is astounding.
If your saturation level regarding agitated camerawork and purposeless cutting has been reached, “Munich” is especially punishing, ruining nearly every scene — a quiet or even loud conversation, a life-or-death bit of espionage — with the one-size-fits-all ersatz nerviness of Frank Lamm’s cinematography and Jens Klüber’s editing.
“I still felt the same eagerness, edginess, nerviness starting out, and it was good. It was a good feel. I haven’t felt this in a while.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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