Temerity

/tɪˈmɛɹ.ɪ.ti/

Synonyms for "temerity" (50 found)

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attitudeboldnesscharacter traitdaringhardihoodhardinessrisk-taking behavior

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Collocations

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academic temeritybold temeritydisplay temerityfoolhardy temerityrare temerityuntempered temerity

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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

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No one had the temerity to speak out against those war crimes.

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1569, Thomas Pearson, trans., "The Second Paradox," in The booke of Marcus Tullius Cicero entituled Paradoxa Stoicorum, T. Marshe (London), Neyther the spightfull temerity and rashnes of variable fortune, nor the envious hart burning and in iurious hatred of mine enemies shold be able once to damnify me.

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Jewan Sadit, who ſtood before the prince, obſerving his youthful temerity, threw himſelf between him and danger, and with a nervous arm, wielding a ſharp ſabre, of the hard tempered ſteel of Damiſk, ruſhing upon the tyger, he ſtruck him acroſs the forehead.

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