Sentences with temerity
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T t - He has even had the temerity to invoke the names of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X in defence of his actions.
- Temerity refers to a rashness or foolish boldness that results from underrating the dangers or failing to evaluate the consequences [he had the temerity to criticize his employer]; audacity suggests either great presumption or defiance of social conventions, morals, etc. [shocked at the audacity of his proposal]; effrontery, always derogatory in usage, connotes shamelessness or insolence in defying the rules of propriety, courtesy, etc. [his effrontery in addressing the teacher by her first name]; nerve, cheek, gall1 are colloquial equivalents of , effrontery, but , nerve, cheek usually suggest mere impudence or sauciness and , gall1, unmitigated insolence