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temerity
noun as in nerve, audacity
Strong matches
- assurance
- boldness
- brass
- carelessness
- daring
- effrontery
- foolhardiness
- forwardness
- gall
- hardihood
- hastiness
- heedlessness
- impertinence
- impetuosity
- imprudence
- impudence
- impulsiveness
- indiscretion
- intrepidity
- intrusiveness
- overconfidence
- pluck
- precipitancy
- precipitateness
- precipitation
- presumption
- rashness
- recklessness
- rudeness
- thoughtlessness
- venturesomeness
Example Sentences
If you are going to have the temerity to put women in cages for our entertainment, you’d better figure out a way to let them out.
He was still seething when the week ended, when Martha MacCallum of Fox News had the temerity to note that Harris was “having some success” at attracting young and minority voters.
Trump hasn’t the temerity nor the ability to handle reality.
They did not bank on the temerity of their own stars, who on Monday lined up one by one to denounce NBC’s decision on its own airwaves.
Arts and culture were considered news-making at the Voice, which had the temerity to put on its cover a story I wrote on Lee Breuer’s deconstruction of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” with little people.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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