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temerity
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  • Whether they watched this parade with pride, temerity, or shame, nobody came forward to interrupt it.†  (source)
  • Cumulus even had the temerity to wave Root's sarcasm aside.†  (source)
  • You should not boast to a better swordsman, else he may decide to punish your temerity.†  (source)
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  • But Jose Arcadio Segundo, in an unforeseen burst of temerity, stubbornly kept on with the project.†  (source)
    temerity = boldness to say something others consider rude or upsetting
  • Delante, known to all as "Head" because he helps run one of the school's largest gangs, the Trenton Park Crew, is short and stocky, with caramel-light skin, hazel eyes, and the temerity of a killer.†  (source)
  • His temerity, his effrontery, his American facking New York nerve.†  (source)
  • He had even had the temerity to object to her sending to Dome for a master-at-arms, on the grounds that it might offend the Tyrells.†  (source)
  • No one even knew Major — de Coverley's first name, because no one had ever had the temerity to ask him.†  (source)
  • I reveal infiltrators in your midst and save you from mortal peril and yet some still retain the temerity to doubt.†  (source)
  • Having achieved my object — that of forcing at least one of the wolves to take cognizance of my existence — I now began to wonder if, in my ignorance, I had transgressed some unknown wolf law of major importance and would have to pay for my temerity.†  (source)
  • Charleston had the democratic good will to look down on all of its suburbs, but it reserved a very special contempt for the industrial city of North Charleston, which not only had the temerity to be extraordinarily common and depressing but had also borrowed the sacred name.†  (source)
  • She waited till the hand of the watch had passed the third minute, in growing indignation that he should have the temerity to remain idle when he should know by now her rule that no one should exceed the allowed one-minute pause.†  (source)
  • No one would ever have the temerity to think of Gerald O'Hara as a ridiculous little figure.†  (source)
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