All 11 Uses of
audacious
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- He had neither the weakness nor the audacity for that.†
Chpt 1.1.3
- The novelty of this singular scene excited such a murmur of mirth and gayety in the hall, that the cardinal was not slow to perceive it; he half bent forward, and, as from the point where he was placed he could catch only an imperfect view of Trouillerfou's ignominious doublet, he very naturally imagined that the mendicant was asking alms, and, disgusted with his audacity, he exclaimed: "Bailiff of the Courts, toss me that knave into the river!"†
Chpt 1.1.4
- They have audaciously adjusted, in the name of "good taste," upon the wounds of gothic architecture, their miserable gewgaws of a day, their ribbons of marble, their pompons of metal, a veritable leprosy of egg-shaped ornaments, volutes, whorls, draperies, garlands, fringes, stone flames, bronze clouds, pudgy cupids, chubbycheeked cherubim, which begin to devour the face of art in the oratory of Catherine de Medicis, and cause it to expire, two centuries later, tortured and grimacing,…†
Chpt 1.3.1
- Only here, this tower was the most audacious, the most open, the most ornamented spire of cabinet-maker's work that ever let the sky peep through its cone of lace.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- "You were so audacious, Master Pierre?" and the priest's brow clouded over again.†
Chpt 2.7.2
- " 'tis a J, all the same," said the scholar, with his ruddy, merry, and audacious face.†
Chpt 2.7.4
- At this audacious declaration, the archdeacon's visage assumed a thoroughly pedagogical and paternal expression.†
Chpt 2.7.4
- He wept with rage as he pictured to himself how many impure looks had been gratified at the sight of that badly fastened shift, and that this beautiful girl, this virgin lily, this cup of modesty and delight, to which he would have dared to place his lips only trembling, had just been transformed into a sort of public bowl, whereat the vilest populace of Paris, thieves, beggars, lackeys, had come to quaff in common an audacious, impure, and depraved pleasure.†
Chpt 2.9.1
- a very audaciously attired young girl
Chpt 2.9.1 *audaciously = boldly and daringly
- When the scholar beheld himself disarmed, stripped, weak, and naked in those terrible hands, he made no attempt to speak to the deaf man, but began to laugh audaciously in his face, and to sing with his intrepid heedlessness of a child of sixteen, the then popular ditty: "~Elle est bien habillée, La ville de Cambrai; Marafin l'a pillée~….†
Chpt 2.10.4
- Their audacity is marvellous, and we are greatly enraged at it.†
Chpt 2.10.5
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