audacity
/ɔˈdæ.sɪ.ti/ nom C2En français : audace, toupet, culot, impudence
- Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. · The brash private had the audacity to criticize the general.· Somebody never pays his loans, yet he has the audacity to ask the bank for money.
- Fearlessness, intrepidity or daring, especially with confident disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
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de Brezé, who was all astonishment at finding that this young man had the audacity to enter before the king in such attire.
Perhaps it was caused by either the originality or the audacity of the snow-bird hunter, in thus circumventing her express commands against the ordinary modes of communication.
With your usual happy mixture of cunning and audacity, you have got him.”
With characteristic promptness and audacity he set about this at once, and we cannot doubt that the boots or chamber-maid of the hotel was well bribed to help him in his design.
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