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audacity

/ɔˈdæ.sɪ.ti/

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What does audacity mean?

noun

  1. Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.
  2. 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.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
He had as much dignity as audacity, a sense of justice as keen as the purpose was zealous in pursuing it.
John Clark Ridpath; G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam; Charles K. (Charles Keyser) EdmundsJames Otis, the Pre-RevolutionistProject Gutenberg ebook #722
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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.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
If he did not pit his craft and audacity against the very gods, it is only because the Olympian gods are dead.
Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #1058
But I escaped, and I attribute my escape, as I have said before, most of all, to the very audacity of the enterprise.
Anthony HopeThe prisoner of ZendaProject Gutenberg ebook #95