overboldness

Example Sentences

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

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

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

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

From For The Admiral by Marx, W.J.

Either from overboldness in the metaphors, or from some unaptness in the material of them, I have to confess that my mind rather rebels against these stretches of poetical prerogative.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

They “advised their captain, through his overboldness, not to leave their widows and fatherless children to give him bitter curses.”

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick