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Definition

boldness — typically to say something others consider rude or upsetting

She had the temerity to oppose the popular proposal.

temerity = confidence or courage

The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

temerity = confidence or courage

Big God howled like a hot wind... Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

temerity = confidence or courage

I reveal infiltrators in your midst and save you from mortal peril and yet some still retain the temerity to doubt.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Terror seized me, a horror of my temerity.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
His impassive temerity astounds me.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Whether they watched this parade with pride, temerity, or shame, nobody came forward to interrupt it.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
Cumulus even had the temerity to wave Root's sarcasm aside.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
He paused, ready to pounce upon any man who might have the temerity to reply.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
No doubt he has disturbed some terrible monster in his watery home, and perhaps we may pay dearly for our temerity.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
His temerity, his effrontery, his American facking New York nerve.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
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.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
The Americans, who make a virtue of commercial temerity, have no right in any case to brand with disgrace those who practise it.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
You should not boast to a better swordsman, else he may decide to punish your temerity.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
He stared up disapprovingly over his eye-glasses as Mr. Pontellier entered, wondering who had the temerity to disturb him at that hour of the morning.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
Baseek was surprised by the other's temerity and swiftness of attack.
Jack London -- White Fang
It all lay in the surface of practical anatomy years ago, but no one had the temerity to touch it.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
No one even knew Major — de Coverley's first name, because no one had ever had the temerity to ask him.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Gradually her confidence overcame his backwardness, and he had the temerity to stroke her golden curls with a great hand.
Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
How could Sue have had the temerity to ask him to do it—a cruelty possibly to herself as well as to him?
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure

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