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audacity
/ɔˈdæ.sɪ.ti/
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What does audacity mean?
noun
- Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.
- Fearlessness, intrepidity or daring, especially with confident disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
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These lamentable tribes of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, they possess the heedless audacity of mind.
He had as much dignity as audacity, a sense of justice as keen as the purpose was zealous in pursuing it.
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Her grace was only an uneasy wriggle, her audacity was the result of insolence and envy, and her wit was restless spite.
If he did not pit his craft and audacity against the very gods, it is only because the Olympian gods are dead.
But I escaped, and I attribute my escape, as I have said before, most of all, to the very audacity of the enterprise.