Entry Word: effrontery

Function: noun

Meaning: shameless boldness <the little squirt had the effrontery to deny eating any cookies, even with the crumbs still on his lips>

Synonyms audacity, brashness, brass, brassiness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah (also chutzpa or hutzpah or hutzpa), gall, nerve, nerviness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, sauce, sauciness, temerity

Related Words arrogance, assurance, cockiness, confidence, overconfidence, sanguinity, self-assurance, self-confidence; impertinence, impudence, insolence, rudeness

Near Antonyms bashfulness, diffidence, hesitancy, modesty, shyness, timidity