Synonyms:
audacity, audaciousness
Meaning: aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision"
Usage examples
She smiled at my audacity.
The pretense of incapacity is impudent in its audacity, and yet it works.
But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost upon Miss Daisy Miller.
"There is something almost sublime in audacity like this," thought he. "But it cannot last.
It caught a glimpse of the indistinct outline of a great fish, and exasperated at such audacity, determined to go in chase of the robber.
And as he talked on, he grew quite bold, and actually had the audacity to ask Miss Rebecca for whom she was knitting the green silk purse?
In the succeeding autumn a small Iroquois war-party had the audacity to cross over to the island, and build a fort of felled trees in the woods.
There was a long distance to be traversed between the guarded utterances of this protest and the heroic audacity which launched the proclamation of emancipation.
He lived from 1803 to 1869, and because of his audacity in using new and startling tonal effects was called the most flagrant musical heretic of the nineteenth century.
One of them, having succeeded in climbing along a part of the rigging, had the audacity to enter a cabin and seize upon a sword, with which he threw himself into the sea.