temerity
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It is reprisal and revenge against a group that had the temerity to oppose hate wherever it originates.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
Nora can’t believe he has the temerity to ask her to star in his next work after many years of estrangement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
How many generals and admirals in the audience were appalled that this talk show host and former major in the National Guard had the temerity to sneer at experienced combat commanders?
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2025
Arts and culture were considered news-making at the Voice, which had the temerity to put on its cover a story I wrote on Lee Breuer’s deconstruction of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” with little people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
They swarmed across our emplacements and redoubts, observing us with the temerity of the conqueror.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing temerity
To Kill a Mockingbird
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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