英语词汇“temerity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	temerity
释义	te·mer·i·ty \təˈmerəd.ē, -rətē, -i\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English temeryte, from Latin temeritas, from temere by chance, rashly + -itas -ity; akin to Old Saxon thim dark, Old High German demar darkness, dinstar dark, Old Norse thām mugginess, Old Irish temel darkness, Latin tenebrae, Sanskrit tamas; basic meaning: dark : unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : reckless and often presumptuous boldness : rash venturesomeness < a private with the temerity to speak up against the sergeant's bullying > < the author's intellectual temerity is colossal — Rubin Gotesky > Synonyms: hardihood, audacity, nerve, effrontery, cheek, gall: temerity suggests a boldness or courage in forward action or gesture arising from contempt of danger or from lack of due consideration of chances of failure, rebuff, or defeat < he impetuously brushed aside the legalistic twaddle of the lawyers … and they frowned on such temerity — C.G.Bowers > < tenth-rate critics and compilers, for whom any violent shock to the public taste would be a temerity not to be risked — Matthew Arnold > hardihood indicates a determined resolution or self-confidence in bold gestures that may involve defiance or insolence < glowering in sullen suspense between hardihood and fear — John Galsworthy > < the reviewers … were staggered by my hardihood in offering a woman of forty as a subject of serious interest — Arnold Bennett > audacity suggests a daring boldness with an openly expressed disdain of prudence, restrain, convention, or authority < the supreme audacity of looking into her soul — Victoria Sackville-West > < the audacity … in offering battle against forces ten times his own > nerve indicates an assured, cool boldness which may offend by being presumptuous < you had the nerve to ask me to marry you — Barnaby Conrad > effrontery suggests flagrant or flaunted insolence that is rude and presumptuous < had the effrontery to pose as the avenger of outraged morality — G.B.Shaw > < unable to endure the cool effrontery of a Yankee schoolmaster's dabbling in affairs peculiarly English — H.R.Warfel > cheek suggests impudent or insolently flaunted self-assurance < I've never allowed anyone to talk to me as you do … you have the cheek of the devil himself — Hartley Howard > gall is most extreme in suggesting a brazen boldness likely to irritate or enrage < some have only one attribute, a colossal gall — Stanley Walker >
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