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temerity
/təˈmɛɹ.ə.ti/
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What does temerity mean?
noun
- Reckless boldness; foolish bravery.
- An act or case of reckless boldness.
- Effrontery; impudence.
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It was an act, apparently, of the most daring temerity, but the general had faith in himself and in his men.
How could Sue have had the temerity to ask him to do it—a cruelty possibly to herself as well as to him?
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Everyone, indeed, was amazed to see them not only alive, but uninjured, and the Frank's temerity became the talk of the desert.
‘Tis a presumption of great danger and consequence, besides the absurd temerity it draws after it, to contemn what we do not comprehend.
Bahloo, too, has a spiteful way of punishing a woman who has the temerity to stare at him, by sending her the dreaded twins.