All 14 Uses of
audacious
in
The American
- And the old man turned afresh, with a staring, wondering homage, to the audacious daub on the easel.†
Chpt 1 *
- "Listen to her; she has the audacity!" said Tristram, who on Sunday evenings was always rather acrimonious.†
Chpt 3
- The young girl stopped and looked at him; she had a spot of color in either cheek, and in her expressive French eye, which projected too much for perfect beauty, there was a slight gleam of audacity.†
Chpt 4
- In a certain sense, it seemed to Newman, M. Nioche might be at rest; his daughter might do something very audacious, but she would never do anything foolish.†
Chpt 4
- "I think you are audacious," said the marquise.†
Chpt 10
- Newman had been a trifle bewildered by the audacious irony of the younger brother, and he had not needed its aid to point the moral of M. de Bellegarde's transcendent patronage.†
Chpt 12
- "I can't quite make out; it is something dreadfully bad, something mean and underhand, and not redeemed by audacity, as his mother's misdemeanors may have been.†
Chpt 13
- But there mingled with it a certain mild audacity, born of the occasion and of a sense, probably, of Newman's unprecedented approachableness, and, beyond this, a vague indifference to the old proprieties; as if my lady's own woman had at last begun to reflect that, since my lady had taken another person, she had a slight reversionary property in herself.†
Chpt 13
- Young Madame de Bellegarde was dressed in an audacious toilet of crimson crape, bestrewn with huge silver moons—thin crescent and full disks.†
Chpt 16
- Do you know that as you are now," Mrs. Tristram pursued, with characteristic audacity of comment, "you are extremely eloquent, even without speaking?†
Chpt 18
- What had happened to him seemed to have, in its violence and audacity, the force of a real calamity—the strength and insolence of Destiny herself.†
Chpt 19
- "You may be weak but once, but you will be audacious many times, madam," Newman answered.†
Chpt 21
- It ran as follows:— "I cannot deny myself the satisfaction of letting you know that I return to Paris, to-morrow, with my mother, in order that we may see my sister and confirm her in the resolution which is the most effectual reply to your audacious pertinacity.†
Chpt 21
- "A little," said Mrs. Tristram, growing still more audacious.†
Chpt 25
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