All 8 Uses of
audacious
in
The Idiot
- Send me back then this one word of sympathy, only sympathy, I swear to you; and oh! do not be angry with the audacity of despair, with the drowning man who has dared to make this last effort to save himself from perishing beneath the waters.†
Chpt 1.7
- But he is audacious and shameless.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- —Nastasia Philipovna," he added, looking at her like some lunatic, harmless generally, but suddenly wound up to a pitch of audacity, "here are eighteen thousand roubles, and—and you shall have more—."†
Chpt 1.10
- She gazed haughtily at the audacious person who had addressed her companion, and then turned a look of astonishment upon Evgenie himself.†
Chpt 2.10
- " 'Why, what on earth can have possessed you to come and see ME, Terentieff?' he cried, with his usual pleasant, sometimes audacious, but never offensive familiarity, which I liked in reality, but for which I also detested him.†
Chpt 3.6
- Were I in any way on a footing with you, you might be offended at my audacity; but who am I, and who are you?†
Chpt 3.10
- But he won't write anonymous letters to the old lady; that would be too audacious a thing for him to attempt; but I dare swear the very first thing he did was to show me up to Aglaya as a base deceiver and intriguer.†
Chpt 4.1
- Whether she were a woman who had read too many poems, as Evgenie Pavlovitch supposed, or whether she were mad, as the prince had assured Aglaya, at all events, this was a woman who, in spite of her occasionally cynical and audacious manner, was far more refined and trustful and sensitive than appeared.†
Chpt 4.8
Definition:
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(audacious) bold and daring (inclined to take risks) -- especially in violating social convention in a manner that could offend others