chutzpa

Example Sentences

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Who dares to get inside the very heads of strangers, who has the chutzpa to project thoughts and feelings into the minds of others, who steals their very souls?

From Time

Moshe Maoz, an expert on Syria at Israel's Hebrew University, said the prime minister's tough stand was "an affront and chutzpa" to the international community.

From US News

Most people can’t use this because of bone density, the need to live near a hospital and you have to have a certain amount of chutzpa, which he has.”

From Washington Times

New York magazine’s art critic railed at the “banal, nouveau riche” Sculls, whose “greed,” “shamelessness,” and “sheer, unadulterated chutzpa” killed contemporary art “not with a whimper but with a bid.”

From New York Times