boldness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boldness
Noun
  • There’s only one word for it: chutzpah, an extreme level of audacity, gall or nerve.
    Steve Bousquet, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
  • And today, in 2024, people have the audacity to say bitcoin wasn't hijacked.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Such calls for regulatory actions against short sellers are all based on the assumption that short selling is nefarious — that daring to take a negative view of a company’s stock is tantamount to market manipulation, especially if the short sellers have the impudence to publicize their viewpoint.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • For many enslaved people, a mistress’s complaint of impudence could end in a beating.
    Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • There was a celebration in the building on New Year’s Eve, with some strands apparently still stuck in the rafters — no disrespect to KU.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The vast majority of females in the book are described with vulgar disrespect by the various characters and the narrator.
    Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Still, the similarities are felt, stylistically and technically, in the collage-like form and the free manipulation of archival images—and, above all, in a shared sense of audacious yet exquisite aestheticism yoked to a strain of refined, resolute insolence.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • And despite Aegon’s insolence, neither Criston nor Aemond could have predicted that the king would show up to the fight drunk on dragonback before Aemond can arrive.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
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