(n.) Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.
(n.) Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There isn't anyone that would have the audacity or poor behaviour to do that."
(2) Maybe they have military training but only certain people would have the balls – the audacity – to pull off something like that.” Another former robber said the stolen goods would already be at their destination.
(3) The audacity is astonishing: there was a wonderful debate in Scotland [last year], you lost it.
(4) When I first saw the film, I remember being stunned with Allen's sheer audacity in the scene where he remembers his old schoolroom, sitting alongside kids who harangue him in adult language about his sexual precocity: "For God's sake, Alvy, even Freud speaks of a latency period!"
(5) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
(6) (“It’s a bit embarrassing if the audience doesn’t know the context.”) His film-making strengths – as displayed in Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady , Syndromes and a Century , and Uncle Boonmee itself – are a structural audacity that often results in narratives stopping dead, switching characters, or reformatting themselves; a languid, lyrical shooting style; and an unhurried investigation of memory and place.
(7) When Putin complained recently that calls for a Russian ban were a worrying sign of politics interfering in sport, it was hard not to laugh at his audacity.
(8) Euan Loughrey, 15, from St Malachy's College, in Belfast, had a copy of Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, hoping to get it signed.
(9) And now he is attempting to bully and disparage yet another federal judge … for having the audacity to do his job and apply the rule of the law.” The first White House response to the Seattle ruling came on Friday night, with a promise to appeal and a defense of the order as “lawful and appropriate”.
(10) I dearly hope that just as some jurisdictions had the audacity to lead on marijuana reform, they will find equivalent courage to learn from services and policies that have been tried in other countries.
(11) One of his staunchest allies, perhaps surprisingly, was Stan Brakhage , the experimental American film-maker whose work was in a different world from Russell's, but who frequently showed his films to students as object lessons in effective audacity.
(12) I thought if he’s, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five-year-old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front-seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about me?” he said.
(13) Clegg's coalition decision last week was certainly a fateful call for the Liberal Democrats, but the palm for political audacity in May 2010 belongs above all to Cameron.
(14) On Twitter, people leapt to underline the audacity of his remarks under the hashtag #DonLemonReporting.
(15) The rise of Grace Mugabe is an unfolding political fairytale that creates awe from her followers, concern from the primed, and exposes her sheer audacity.
(16) "The audacity of the show is what really appeals to Americans," he explains.
(17) There is the audacity, the bravery, the willingness to take risks with feats of outrageous derring-do.” He added: “When [Churchill] wrote his 1922 white paper that paved the way for accelerated Jewish entry into Palestine, Churchill imagined Jews and Arabs living side by side, with technically expert Jewish farmers helping the Arabs to drive tractors.
(18) You need audacity to pull off a white blazer, never mind a World Cup win.
(19) Other crimes have got their points but for the audacity of it and the way it captured the public imagination, it's up there.
(20) I’m disappointed that these individuals who cannot fathom my job have the audacity to impose a change to how I function.
Meddlesome
Definition:
(a.) Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then I was seen as someone who, when she was in power, didn’t want anything to do with them.” She was portrayed as meddlesome and pushy, with an undue influence on both Hollande’s policies and his wardrobe.
(2) What worries me is that all this meddlesome injunctioneering could soon threaten the fabric of reason itself, causing a black hole of logic that sucks everything in the universe through to neverwhere.
(3) In a memorable exchange, Senator Angus King of Maine asked: “When a president of the United States in the Oval Office says something like ‘I hope’ or ‘I suggest’ or ‘would you,’ do you take that as a directive?” Comey replied: “Yes, it rings in my ear as kind of, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’” – a reference to King Henry’s II’s kiss of death to Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
(4) Professionals, unionised workers and meddlesome politicians need to stand aside and allow the system to become rational, transaction-oriented and incentivised.
(5) Their fathers tended to be away from home, and mothers were conspicuously overprotective and meddlesome.
(6) Even when David Cameron swore he would not introduce "any more meddlesome top-down restructuring" he pushed through another.
(7) He dumped Every Child Matters: it was, he noted in February 2012, "meddlesome".
(8) No one could be accused of "meddlesome" intervention in the life of Daniel Pelka.
(9) The size of the hammer taken to Defra revealed more about the government’s approach than simply its antipathy to the meddlesome pursuit of environmental protection.
(10) 1 example of "meddlesome medicine" is the widespread use of "therapeutic abortion."
(11) While this sort of front office juggling and decision-making waffling isn't entirely uncommon and not really too newsworthy, Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix reported details that made Pera's recent behavior as being less meddlesome and more just flat out eccentric : • Pera wanted more influence in deciding the playing time for certain players, particularly fourth-year power forward Ed Davis.
(12) Simon Callow stars as Godfrey, the mischievously meddlesome narrator, while Enfield plays a sinister creep who seduces grieving widows, via tip-offs from a corrupt undertaker, in order to steal their life's savings.
(13) Minor surgery is usually meddlesome and often followed by local recurrence which is hard to control.
(14) At 64 years of age, the lazy and meddlesome Cloquet stopped operating and writing.
(15) Laparotomy is unnecessary and potentially meddlesome.
(16) It's a useful reminder, if one were needed, that there's no technique too mendacious, too meddlesome or too unpleasant for people who think other woman's reproductive organs are de facto their business.