as in gall
shameless boldness
she had the brazenness to expect us to let her tap into our cable connection
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Recent Examples of brazenness
Pollak recalls Karin making the first move – her brazenness being one of his favorite qualities.
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Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
Financiers sometimes laughed at the brazenness of Drahi’s methods.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
Financiers sometimes laughed at the brazenness of Drahi’s methods.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brazenness
Noun
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Then there are parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in the galls and go on to devour the entire oak gall wasp.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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What unmitigated gall this organization has!—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The new neurons integrated smoothly with existing nerve circuits.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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Whatever the manifestation—hair-tucking, shorts-pulling, ball-bouncing, bobbing, pocket-checking, or something else entirely—the familiarity of these motions can have a soothing effect, calming the player’s nerves before a big shot.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This arrogance is not just limited to tech titans.—
Christian Josi,
Boston Herald,
31 Aug. 2025
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These traits do not always show up as arrogance.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Boldness and audacity are a protection for creativity against fear.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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Build your audacity stack One of my favorite takeaways from Cultivating Audacity is that boldness grows through repetition, not revelation.—
Shelley Zalis,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Internet users cannot cope with her audaciousness at such a young age.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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History is full of people who practiced tasteful chutzpah at scale.—
Julia Korn,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Fortunately, Kiari underscores Offset’s critical gifts, tapping into his chutzpah while demonstrating even more growth.—
Will Dukes,
Rolling Stone,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Beccacece has tried to channel the growing confidence.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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These numbers highlight a challenge that extends far beyond accounting, and that’s not understanding the critical link between financial confidence and entrepreneurial growth.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Wall Street Journal had the effrontery to publish a piece painful to Trump—painful because the truth hurts.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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Both clever, the younger had the effrontery to be popular and sporty, too.—
Esther Freud,
Vogue,
2 July 2025
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“Brazenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brazenness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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