ballsy

As if releasing a pro-stealing film in a very anti-theft corporate culture weren’t ballsy enough, radical filmmaker Boots Riley grabs everything from the kitchen sink and tosses it into the blender for “I Love Boosters.”

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

"I think he had his dad to help him with the letter but it was quite ballsy, you know: 'Brian Epstein’s got The Beatles; you need us', or something like that," says Underwood.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2024

“One intensely sad and angry and insecure, the other a ballsy bravado performance for public consumption.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

I never questioned that we should be those things when I grew up, because women were very rock ’n’ roll where I came from, very forthright and very funny and ballsy and tough.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

I couldn't believe my mom was encouraging me to be so ballsy.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

But I’m also richer, more powerful and ballsier than everyone else.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2016

You might expect J. Edgar to trump The Private Files with even ballsier revelations or, taking the high road, more elevated insights.

From Time ● Nov. 8, 2011

It’s something Jensen calls “the ballsiest thing I’ve ever seen a person do.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025

Yet there Ibaka was, suited up and ready to play Game 3, one of the quickest recoveries, worst misdiagnoses or ballsiest team fabrications in NBA playoff history.

From The Guardian ● May 28, 2014

“I think it's probably one of the ballsiest moves that has ever been made in the history of the hip-hop business,” says hip-hop historian Jeff Chang, author of the book Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2014

Ladies and gentlemen, the ballsiest letter ever written.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2012

The result is the blackest, ballsiest political comedy since Dr. Strangelove.

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2010