[ aw- das -i-tee ]
/ ɔˈdæs ɪ ti /
boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness: His questioner's audacity shocked the lecturer.
Usually audacities . audacious or particularly bold or daring acts or statements.Set your sights on wordy gold with this quiz on the commonly mixed up words "site," "cite," and sight"!
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“Site” and “cite” derive from the same Latin root, “situs.”
1400–50; late Middle English
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An artist who seeks to pay proper tribute to trees must have skill, imagination and a measure of audacity .
Few achievements in modern science rival the speed and the audacity of the coronavirus vaccine program.
That paradigm-busting audacity has given KDP the biggest caffeine buzz in beverages.
It is the necessity and audacity not only of hope, but of beauty.
In the end, talent and technique got the better of ardor and audacity .
Many rock artists “borrowed” material from black blues artists, but few did so with more audacity than Jimmy Page.
They have a great sense of performance, bravado, and audacity .
As David Plouffe detailed in his book, The Audacity To Win, the campaign had committed in writing to stay in the federal system.
He's someone with huge potential, in line with the spirit of Vuitton - creative audacity with extreme refinement.
But they soon fell out, for Murat had the audacity to try and make these patriots fight instead of merely seeking plunder.
Scarce a day passed without some engagement in which the King of Naples showed his audacity and his talent as a leader.
As Marquise de Condillac it hurt her pride to listen and not have him whipped for his audacity ; as a woman it insulted her.
Felizardo was remarkable for his audacity , his fine horsemanship, and his expert marksmanship.
Audacity , ever excellent in war, is sound as a proposition of Euclid in operations against Asiatics.