Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being audacious; boldness; reckless daring; impudence; audacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.
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- noun
Risky ordaring behaviour. - noun
impudence
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fearless daring
- noun aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery
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Examples
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Yet, despite ‘The Audacity of Hope’, all the audaciousness is coming from the wacky wingnuts and tea-baggers.
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I would think that people would be all over this as a violation of property or vandalism or sign of the degeneracy of Europeans, but instead, we're going to argue about the "audaciousness" of a white canvas, without even knowing what is on the other two canvases that form the rest of the painting.
"When I kissed it, I thought the artist would have understood." Ann Althouse 2007
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He opened with a seven-minute monologue in which he guaranteed—for the third straight year—that the Jets would win the Super Bowl, a moment of rote audaciousness that seemed designed to pique people's interest.
The Allure of Playing for Rex Mike Sielski 2011
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Yes, the confluence of the culinary and cocktail worlds has been happening for some time now, evidenced by the vogue of homemade tinctures and bitters and bourbon washed in bacon fat, but no place has done it with such audaciousness and culinary precision.
Raising the Bar Kevin Sintumuang 2011
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Once again what audaciousness and ignorant these Democrats have!
Subsistence-Fishing Alaska Senator Fights Fishing Citation 2009
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Similarly I read Joe Lansdale's Vanilla Ride which has no SF elements, other than sheer audaciousness gonzo-ness and realized that I was absolutely the target audience for that title.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 2) 2009
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Once again what audaciousness and ignorant these Democrats have!
Subsistence-Fishing Alaska Senator Fights Fishing Citation 2009
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"That would have to be his audaciousness," said a family friend of Percy Sutton.
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"That would have to be his audaciousness," said a family friend of Percy Sutton.
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Winning sanctions audaciousness, which leads us to:
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