Synonyms

1. audaciousness

Sentence Examples

1. All the adventures that could befall him from that time forth he regarded as already done and brought to a happy issue he made light of enchantments and enchanters he thought no more of the countless drubbings that had been administered to him in the course of his knight-errantry, nor of the volley of stones that had levelled half his teeth, nor of the ingratitude of the galley slaves, nor of the audacity of the Yanguesans and the shower of stakes that fell upon him in short, he said to himself that could he discover any means, mode, or way of disenchanting his lady Dulcinea, he would not envy the highest fortune that the most fortunate knight-errant of yore ever reached or could reach.
2. But these freaks of his guest were not much to the liking of the landlord, so he determined to cut matters short and confer upon him at once the unlucky order of knighthood before any further misadventure could occur so, going up to him, he apologised for the rudeness which, without his knowledge, had been offered to him by these low people, who, however, had been well punished for their audacity.
3. His conductors tried to punish the audacity of the boys, but there was no possibility of doing so, for they hid themselves among the hundreds of others that were following them.
4. The damsels, the concocters of the joke, kept their eyes down, not daring to look at their master and mistress and as for them, laughter and anger struggled within them, and they knew not what to do, whether to punish the audacity of the girls, or to reward them for the amusement they had received from seeing Don Quixote in such a plight.
5. You have had the barefaced audacity to come in here and throw your weight about without even consulting me on my wishes.
6. My shout of alarm turned into a shout of amazement and glee at beholding such audacity.
7. And such is their audacity, they even dare to unsettle the wits of gentlemen of birth and intelligence, as is shown plainly by the way they have served your worship, when they have brought you to such a pass that you have to be shut up in a cage and carried on an ox-cart as one would carry a lion or a tiger from place to place to make money by showing it.
8. It was Passepartout who, playing his part with a happy audacity, had passed through the crowd amid the general terror.
9. I remember well how sad and dreary those days and hours were to me I remember well how I began to doubt as they went by, and even to lose confidence in the faith of Don Fernando and I remember, too, how my maid heard those words in reproof of her audacity that she had not heard before, and how I was forced to put a constraint on my tears and on the expression of my countenance, not to give my parents cause to ask me why I was so melancholy, and drive me to invent falsehoods in reply.
10. The audacity of the idea, the sheer magnitude of the endeavor, and even the apparent hopelessness of attempting such a fight was too much for the rugged bowman to resist.