What's the difference between cheeky and chutzpah?

Cheeky


Definition:

  • () a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Magnussen performed a cheeky pass on Hulkenberg before they reached the second safety line, controversial.
  • (2) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
  • (3) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
  • (4) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
  • (5) 'He’s still a cheeky little sod, but he’s definitely a nicer boy' … Allan and Michelle Darwin with their son Zane.
  • (6) However, give or take the odd cheeky top-up, here I am in the one-glass-of-wine-a-night zone.
  • (7) (Plus, he was still willing to play the cheeky bad boy, criticising Sainsbury's stance on chicken, and only apologising to the company once he had got his message across.)
  • (8) It was a cheeky thing to say since "misuse" is a loaded term.
  • (9) John Oliver's cheeky net neutrality plea crashes FCC website Read more Spurred on by online activists including Fight for the Future , a six-person team that has managed to coordinate protests with people and companies including Reddit, Netflix, Mozilla and PornHub, people have now submitted more than four million comments on the FCC proposals.
  • (10) He makes it to the area and draws Krul, but his cheeky chip over the advancing keeper floats wide left of the open goal.
  • (11) His assertion in interviews that the borrowing rate is 8.9% to 14.9% is also a little bit cheeky.
  • (12) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
  • (13) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
  • (14) "Or is he off being cheeky and cheerful (but ineffective) somewhere else?
  • (15) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
  • (16) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (17) What makes cheeky Salmond think an independent Scotland would be allowed to use the pound, or enter the EU, or be admitted to Nato?
  • (18) Andrew is an extrovert, a cheerful lovely soul, a cheeky guy,” says Morrissey.
  • (19) I remember those children when we first met them, and they were so bubbly, and so vibrant and cheeky and funny and just over time how their personality would change,” Reen said.
  • (20) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.

Chutzpah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Russell, with typical chutzpah, claimed it was the best thing he ever made.
  • (2) It takes some chutzpah and, let's face it, a lack of perspective for a celebrity to ask a war crimes tribunal for these sorts of restrictions, but perhaps we should expect no more from a woman who said that she had never heard of Liberia when she met Charles Taylor at a charity dinner given by Nelson Mandela in 1997.
  • (3) So the struggle to return to a kind of normal is evident – but so are the pride and chutzpah; the drive and ego that presumably help to keep a difficult show on the road.
  • (4) She was turned down when she applied to study art at Central Saint Martins, but when she told them the decision would ruin her life and she'd end up a "crackhead prostitute", they let her in for sheer chutzpah.
  • (5) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
  • (6) Whatever your view of Rich's approach to business, you had to admire his chutzpah.
  • (7) One writes off, with breathtaking chutzpah, a then-prominent school of Scottish painters as "a tiny, unimportant part of the international art world".
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Panama Papers explained An equivalent blast of Cameronian chutzpah today might work wonders again – assuming, of course, that no awkward secrets are still lurking behind the evolving denials.
  • (9) So to see someone with that chutzpah and bullet-proof, Teflon, confidence close up is fascinating.
  • (10) It takes a great deal of chutzpah to run for president of the United States.
  • (11) In 1984, with the chutzpah of youth, he launched himself in business.
  • (12) In the event, she didn't need to prove her chutzpah.
  • (13) The chutzpah of these attempts to build support for an increasingly unpopular fracking industry is astonishing.
  • (14) This involved a massive dose of chutzpah but it is clearly smart politics if they can pull it off.
  • (15) Now, it's not like the political class had an extraordinary annual general meeting and appointed Clegg as its new anti-Farage attack dog: with his customary chutzpah, he simply appointed himself to the role.
  • (16) It's bold talk, but so far, Lawrence's choice of roles has justified her chutzpah; her next project, Jodie Foster's The Beaver, is a "weird as hell film" (Lawrence's words) with Mel Gibson as a depressed man who communicates through his beaver   hand-puppet.
  • (17) But with no little chutzpah, Qureshi even finds a way of folding that turquoise-coloured eyesore into a story of civic wonderment.
  • (18) By the end one could only admire West Brom’s chutzpah, a quality United appear to have temporarily mislaid.
  • (19) The word "chutzpah" is barely adequate to describe a lecture from the head of a school that is highly selective both academically and financially – it has one of the country's most distinguished academic records, and charges about £14,000 a year – accusing the state sector of excessive regard for commercialism.
  • (20) His blend of chutzpah and dynamism seduced many voters who felt he articulated their own exasperation with an ageing, sclerotic political class.