(a.) Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.
(a.) Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
(2) Who else in American politics would be so audacious as to have one spouse accept money from foreign governments and businesses while the other charted American foreign policy?” Schweizer asks.
(3) China has penetrated the Foreign Office's internal communications in the most audacious example yet of the growing threat posed by state-sponsored cyber-attacks, it emerged tonight.
(4) Reading the extraordinary details in Michael Beloff’s independent ethics commission report and the second part of Dick Pound’s independent commission report, published on Thursday , it is becoming increasingly clear Diack and his two sons, plus his legal counsel Habib Cissé, were running an audacious shadow operation that grasped opportunity where ever it came.
(5) Five minutes into the second half the Nigerian attacker produced an audacious flick over the head of Borges before sending a pinpoint cross to Smith, only for the veteran striker to head on to the crossbar.
(6) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
(7) The launch of Sky Atlantic follows the broadcaster's audacious £150m, five-year deal to snap up the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, new HBO programming and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
(8) An audacious youth leader once tipped as a future president of South Africa has been expelled from the governing African National Congress (ANC).
(9) In a recent Facebook post, he called The Putin Interviews “a four-hour audacious climax to my strange life as an American film-maker”.
(10) One of the brewery’s two founders, James Watt, pronounced the drink “an audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion”.
(11) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
(12) Under Rossetto, stories written in the UK had to be vetted to see if they were sufficiently "Wired" - with San Francisco (US Wired's base) even vetoing the attempt to bring in two audacious hires: Douglas Adams as editor and Neville Brody as creative director.
(13) The different sketches and 3D renditions of the ten projects make audacious and compelling viewing (see them here ).
(14) He breathed new life into a somewhat static side, heading their second equaliser from a corner, almost scoring with a fabulously audacious shot and then creating what seemed to be the winner for Mike Williamson.
(15) In his speech on Monday, he makes an audacious raid on Labour territory, claiming the Tories are now the “true party of labour”.
(16) He said the organoid was "audacious and the similarities with some of the features of a human brain really quite astounding".
(17) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
(18) The Zappa statue was audaciously suggested by local artists in 1992, as a slightly flippant test of their country's newfound democratic freedoms; to their surprise, the authorities called their bluff.
(19) Even more audaciously, they then went on to post real-time email exchanges between Gawker staffers that they had hacked into, in which the employees discussed how they were coming under attack.
(20) Where did she find the strength for this audacious patricide?
Fearless
Definition:
(a.) Free from fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) She rather fearlessly implied that "women who make lots of money from illicit sex" should forfeit the right to freedom of expression.
(2) They are fearless because there are so many of them."
(3) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(4) I mean he did thousands of songs and obviously he didn’t get every single thing right, but he was fearless.
(5) Fearless and independent Ethics Committees have considerable influence on both the design and implementation of clinical research, and on the topics of allowable research in which infants and children will be involved.
(6) He was fearless and driven, creating music quickly, and without ever stopping to wonder whether his push for new sounds would alienate his audience."
(7) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
(8) In a memo to AP staff, AP President Gary Pruitt remembered Niedringhaus as "spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember."
(9) "The events of July 2011 [when the Guardian reported that Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked by the News of the World] have demonstrated that vigorous and fearless responsible journalism is vital for public interest.
(10) "The further away from the road the more fearless the chimps got," he added.
(11) Wesley Snipes is fearless Facebook Twitter Pinterest The actor elicited as many gasps as he did laughs in introducing Lee while speaking in a put-on thick African accent.
(12) Hillary Clinton stands for everything I admire and everything I want to be – compassionate, fearless, sincere,” said Biira, who now works at Heifer International.
(13) In a letter to the director general, Tony Hall, coordinated by Labour’s Pat McFadden, a cross-party group of MPs and MEPs calls on the corporation to “resist attempts at political interference”, and “report fearlessly and impartially” on the negotiations as Britain leaves the European Union .
(14) He has shown giant dignity, and like all of us he may not be faultless but he's certainly fearless.
(15) Yet this impression of youthful fearlessness is a little deceptive.
(16) I speak only for myself when I say I am adventurous, independent, and perhaps a little too fearless sometimes.
(17) That such a popular drama does this so fearlessly is rather magnificent.
(18) Good-looking and apparently fearless, he would swoop in to visit German troops in Afghanistan looking like an extra from Top Gun in aviator shades, flight suit and desert boots.
(19) I felt at home in the journalistic tribe and encouraged by the apparent fearlessness with which they expressed their opinions.
(20) I would want them to know that they too need to be bold, courageous and fearless, just as everybody else, male or female, who defied the odds to follow their dreams.