Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness or insolence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
audacious manner;bravely ,daringly , but notfoolheartedly . - adverb In a
brazen ,forthright manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an audacious manner
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Examples
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It isn't exactly easy to conquer Hollywood with the kind of audaciously imaginative films that British-born Christopher Nolan makes.
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( "Scott mistakenly cites Kent Mackenzie's 'The Exiles' and Charles Burnett's 'Killer of Sheep' as examples of American neorealism) to better examples (" One of the best movies last year, the truly harsh and disturbing 'Frownland' ... offers the kind of audaciously expressive images, coming through but not staying with realism, that is absent from Scott's favorites ").
indieWIRE News 2009
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( "Scott mistakenly cites Kent Mackenzie's 'The Exiles' and Charles Burnett's 'Killer of Sheep' as examples of American neorealism) to better examples (" One of the best movies last year, the truly harsh and disturbing 'Frownland' ... offers the kind of audaciously expressive images, coming through but not staying with realism, that is absent from Scott's favorites ").
indieWIRE News 2009
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The opposite of victims, second wave feminists audaciously did something and, in the frontier spirit of American self-reliance, claimed responsibility for their own lives and happiness.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: Remember When Liberals Were Feminists? Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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The opposite of victims, second wave feminists audaciously did something and, in the frontier spirit of American self-reliance, claimed responsibility for their own lives and happiness.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: Remember When Liberals Were Feminists? Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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Amazed by the velocity and crispness of his pitches—late in the game, he audaciously used changeups with two strikes—so powerful was his eight-inning/one-run/four-hit/seven-strikeout effort, that the crowd repeatedly chanted the initials of the big lefty when he got two strikes on an Angels batter.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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He was more aggressive and more prominent Wednesday, riding near the front of the main bunch and taking part in two late breakaways, one, audaciously, with a rider half his age.
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There's nothing more "audaciously personal" than a book as a gift, wrote an essayist in the "Unpopular Review" in 1917.
Giving Books for the Holidays Cynthia Crossen 2011
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Mark Vernon of The Guardian wrote, She was an audaciously creative spirit; an awkwardly witty, deadly serious writer.
Julie Daley: The Courage To Sin: What Mary Daly Taught Me About Being A Woman Julie Daley 2011
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The opposite of victims, second wave feminists audaciously did something and, in the frontier spirit of American self-reliance, claimed responsibility for their own lives and happiness.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: Remember When Liberals Were Feminists? Ph.D. Pamela Haag 2011
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