impudence

I ne'er heard yet that any of these bolder vices wanted less impudence to gainsay what they did, than to perform it first.

On such occasions his unfaltering impudence reached heights truly sublime.

If ever the cool impudence was suddenly taken out of a man, this question seemed to take it out of Pike.

The impudence of the authorities, to decoy an unsuspecting workingman across the State line, and then arrest him as my accomplice!

You have acquired a manner that I can only call august; otherwise, I should have to call it such amazing impudence.