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audacious
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  • Nature is audacious enough to ensure that the males who send out dishonest signals or go from one female to the next almost always end up alone.  (source)
    audacious = bold
  • It was an audacious crime, a troubling sign of the violence that felt like it was closing in on her no matter how far she moved away from the center of the city.  (source)
    audacious = bold and daring
  • I doubt any of them had the audacity to consider what they'd do if...  (source)
    audacity = boldness and daring
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  • Of his three wives Ekwefi was the only one who would have the audacity to bang on his door.  (source)
    audacity = boldness and daring
  • "Audacious! Offensive! To address me in this manner!"  (source)
    Audacious = offensively bold
  • a very audaciously attired young girl  (source)
    audaciously = boldly and daringly
  • She had sensed the audaciousness, even the brazenness of the letter as she read it; one or the other, or perhaps simple stupidity, had to impel such a communication from an insignificant parish priest to the Commandant of Auschwitz.†  (source)
    audaciousness = boldness and daring
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.†  (source)
  • But when the Capitol decrees that only one tribute can live and you have the audacity to challenge it, I guess that's a rebellion in itself.  (source)
  • He was a feared gambler, few dared to take him on, so high and audacious were his stakes.  (source)
    audacious = bold and daring
  • Instead, Socrates audaciously proposes to the jury that he be rewarded, not punished.†  (source)
    audaciously = with boldness and daring
  • There was no such satisfaction now, as the figures of the balance took fewer spaces, and he thought of his last audaciousness in money when he had tried to grab a fast buck in order to marry Cissy.†  (source)
    audaciousness = boldness and daring
  • Your levities and audacities are like the loves and comforts prayed for by Desdemona: they increase, even as your days do grow.†  (source)
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