audacity

Definition

  • noun: a confident and daring quality that is often seen as shocking or rude
  • noun: the quality or state of being 'audacious'
  • usually used in plural

Examples

  • He 'had the audacity' to suggest that it was all my fault.

  • I could not believe their 'audacity'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Well, very nice presentation. I'd like to see this shrink ray. Absolutely! Will do. Soon as I have it. You don't have it? And yet you have the audacity to ask the bank for money? Apparently. Do you have any idea of the capital that this bank has invested in you, Gru? (..)
    2010 Despicable Me