(n.) Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anyway, he stood up there gripping the railing, and he was furious at the effrontery of this, and I guess he could already see that his plan was in danger.
(2) That corporations are people was not the great effrontery of the US supreme court's evisceration of democratic principle.
(3) Choking back tears of fury and laughter at the sheer effrontery of it all, Ronald Koeman will endeavour to keep a straight face while demanding £50m.
(4) Nobody had that effrontery to wear those kinds of outfits before."
(5) The effrontery of Cameron’s speech last Friday , opening public services to more privatising, suggests they are recklessly off the leash.
(6) No council leader would have had Livingstone’s shameless effrontery to suggest that those trying to stop the Heron Tower erupting on the skyline were the “heritage Taliban” .
(7) The other factor is that governments have become more vindictive in their pursuit of those who have had the effrontery to tell the truth about their activities.
(8) The sheer, sexist, chauvinistic, patronising effrontery of the man!
(9) He is not used to being confronted by people who have the power, the skill and the simple effrontery to challenge him – and to keep on challenging him.
(10) As the editor in question, I am not able to compete with Murdoch in fabrication – he has had a lifetime of experience – but I do happen to have retained my memory of the year editing the Times, made notes, kept documents and even had the effrontery to write a whole bestselling book about it in 1983, called Good Times, Bad Times.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest London’s Heron Tower: ‘Ken Livingstone had the shameless effrontery to suggest that those trying to stop it erupting on the skyline were the heritage Taliban.’ Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian It was a destiny made manifest in his decisions on everything from aesthetics to congestion charging.
(12) It is hard to put it better than the man who, during the election, reacted to the endorsement of the Conservative anti-tax campaign by Sir Philip and other big business beasts by saying: "I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.
(13) He was already working at the extremes of the domestic and the risqué; his placid mother and child carvings contrasting with the sheer effrontery of such works as Votes for Women, an explicit carving showing the act of intercourse, woman of course on top.
(14) The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, said: "I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.
(15) The story continues thus: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 4.29pm BST 4.20pm BST Probably little more than barefaced effrontery on Brazil's part, but here's more on that Thiago Silva story .
(16) Osborne's jaw-dropping effrontery often leaves opponents winded.
(17) Avant-garde aesthetics and feminist politics now combined to produce an art of fearless effrontery.
(18) What effrontery for health ministers to flourish a list of 53 organisations they claim support the bill, including all the royal colleges, the King's Fund and the entire panoply of the medical establishment – without asking their permission.
(19) After reading about 400 graduates applying for an internship, the effrontery of being expected to pay £4.50 for a watery beer in a badly decorated pub is enough to make you want to stay in.
(20) Perhaps his effrontery inspired Tettey in the 32nd minute, when Hoolahan's cross was headed out to him.
Temerity
Definition:
(n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the request of the state governor, the interim president, Michel Temer, has authorized 1,000 soldiers and 200 marines to bolster security.
(2) A petition is demanding Morgan be deported because he had the temerity to suggest, in the wake of the Newtown mass child murders, that the US could use a little gun control.
(3) The vote that sealed Michel Temer’s installation into power in Brazil took place precisely one week after the end of the Rio Olympic Games and just days before the G20 summit .
(4) And when the curriculum had the temerity to venture into territory with even the vaguest potential for moral or spiritual gravitas, it was obvious that a sort of moral and intellectual panic gripped many of the teaching staff.
(5) !” bawled at me when, as a new cabbie, I had the temerity to ask one of my betters to repeat himself.
(6) Co-hosted with Michel Temer, the Brazilian vice-president, where the 2016 Games will take place, the event is designed to show that the Olympic family is aware of the gaping inequalities faced by competitors.
(7) The Olympic Games are a great inspiration to get things done.” The mayor – a political shape-shifter who has been in five different parties including the Greens, Labour and, currently, the centre-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party of the interim president Michel Temer – also refuted allegations that his focus for Olympic investment has been only on the wealthier parts of the city.
(8) The referee, Robert Madley, had no hesitation in showing a straight red card yet Funes Mori had the temerity to protest before walking off while pulling at his Everton crest in a misguided show of pride.
(9) Santos had the temerity to insist it was a close-fought game separated only by Colombia’s precision in front of goal.
(10) When I have the temerity to ask him about how he squared his anti-establishment reputation with accepting a knighthood in 2003, Jagger replies: "It's a bit old hat as a question, if you don't mind me saying.
(11) Wellington Moreira Franco, a PMDB strategist who is close to Temer, insists impeachment should not be rushed.
(12) And the economic philosophy that’s embedded in this new digital capitalism is neoliberalism red in tooth and claw, which is why they minimise the number of “ordinary” (ie non-geek) workers on their payrolls, outsource everything they can, despise trade unions, view regulators as barriers to “innovation” and are outraged by the temerity of European institutions that seek to curb their freedoms of action.
(13) Following a crushing 61 to 20 defeat in the upper house, she will be replaced for the remaining two years and four months of her term by Michel Temer, a centre-right patrician who was among the leaders of the campaign against his former running mate .
(14) Cameron is co-hosting the mini-summit at the Olympics' close with Michel Temer, vice-president of Brazil, where the next Games will take place.
(15) Alan Ayckbourn, then a callow 20-year-old playing Stanley in an early production of the play in Scarborough, also had the temerity to ask Pinter for some biographical details of the mysterious concert pianist.
(16) Supporters come expecting to see the former host of The Apprentice TV show mock his adversaries and lock horns with anyone who has the temerity to challenge him.
(17) Temer – who was widely criticised for appointing an all-male, all-white cabinet when he took power on an interim basis in May – was sworn in again on Wednesday afternoon and is set to continue until the next presidential election in 2018, when he has promised he will not stand.
(18) Prosecutors allege that he kept his party – and its allies, including Temer’s PMDB – in power with funds illegally obtained from over-inflated contracts from government-run companies, such as Petrobras.
(19) When gay radiologist Jorg Thieme had the temerity to kiss his male partner there, a scandalised Canary Wharf security guard intervened to prevent "a commotion".
(20) Michel Temer, the acting president, has condemned the attack and said he will establish a special task force in the federal police to handle cases of violence against women.