overboldness

Example Sentences

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Did you know with what joy I turned my back on the Court of Pesaro—" "Aye," he broke in mockingly, "when Giovanni Sforza threatened to have you hanged for the overboldness of your tongue.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael

His large nature, impetuously reacting from the asceticism to which he had been bred, turned to excess and overboldness in action, and an occasional coarseness of phrasing in his poems.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

Thirdly come one or two significant admissions of overboldness in matters of criticism, as where he retracts his censure of Raphael's Parnassus in Letter XXXIII.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

I was never an advocate of overboldness, but our guide erred in the other extreme.

From For The Admiral by Marx, W.J.

But is there any potion which might serve as a test of overboldness and excessive and indiscreet boasting?

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin