(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?
Outrageous
Definition:
(n.) Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
(2) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
(3) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
(4) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(5) Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said he was "outraged" by what he described as the administration's "deeply flawed analysis and what can only be interpreted as lip service to one of the greatest threats to our children's future: climate disruption".
(6) Before breaking it under the weight of outrageous expectation in a couple of years.
(7) Just this week, we heard the outrage pouring from many Americans over the crowning of an Indian Miss USA .
(8) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(9) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(10) "The pressure the Germans are putting us under is outrageous," said Sarandi Pitsas, a pensioner who took to the streets to protest against the austerity measures.
(11) I think the club became a bit of a laughing stock last summer with outrageous bids for players we had no real hope of getting.
(12) Japan scrapped its original plan for the national stadium last month in the face of widespread outrage after costs ballooned to £1.34bn ($2.1bn), nearly twice the original estimates – an unusual move for an Olympic host city this late in the process.
(13) It is outrageous to somehow link these to us potentially breaching the welfare cap."
(14) People can claim selective outrage but when we’re finding … CIA spy after CIA spy in Germany week by week but we’re not finding any German spies in the United States and the German government claims that it doesn’t have those kind of spies you know there’s no evidence to make these kind of claims.
(15) The first is the possibility that elections will descend into serious violence, perhaps intensified by Boko Haram outrages.
(16) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
(17) Just right there, in this moment of embarrassing, unhinged, painfully real comic outrage in Portnoy's Complaint, the novel that made Roth famous in 1969, you have the reason why Booker judge Carmen Callil is profoundly wrong to object to Roth getting the International Booker prize – she has withdrawn from the three-person jury over the choice which the other two, male, judges were dead set on.
(18) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
(19) But he might just be saving his most outrageous behaviour for the World Cup, as he did in 2010 when his mean-spirited handball stopped Ghana becoming the first African nation to reach a World Cup semi-final.
(20) One year later, and despite worldwide outrage, their whereabouts remains unknown.