Effrontery

Effrontery is a good word to describe Jimmy Carter.

Michelle Obama just got more popular than Barack. Ann Althouse 2009

One thing is certain, and that is that 1997 has been a great year, possibly the best ever, for Effrontery.

Farewell to Sweet 1997, Back End of Effrontery 1997

The greatest single act of individual Effrontery during the year has to have been Earl Spencer's performance in Westminster Abbey.

Farewell to Sweet 1997, Back End of Effrontery 1997

Like the ice and fire Robert Frost mediated for his apocalypse, if forced to choose, I would add and select Effrontery.

Farewell to Sweet 1997, Back End of Effrontery 1997

It is temerity … that springs from heedlessness, not of danger, but of ordinary decorum … Effrontery is the exhibiting for gain of the unbuttoned ego; it is the hypertrophy of brashness, and the embodiment of insolence.

Farewell to Sweet 1997, Back End of Effrontery 1997

Effrontery, bravado, and exaggeration are qualities that are shown by those who exceed their own capacity without giving the question a thought.

Poise: How to Attain It D. Starke

Effrontery and boastfulness have often another source.

Poise: How to Attain It D. Starke

Effrontery may sometimes impose upon the innocent.

Poise: How to Attain It D. Starke

Several Factors from Time to Time, have by Artifice, & Assurance, procured large Commissions from Home, and with Effrontery and Insensibility of Discredit, have become Bankrupts: Thus the Produce of these Effects remained here, and makes good in some Sense, that Position of Dr. Mandevilles; Private Vices are publick Benefits.

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1740

Home, and with Effrontery and Insensibility of Discredit, have become

A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1739