Crossword-Solution: TEMERITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Temerity | n. | Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “TEMERITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Undue boldness | 1 answer |
| Reckless boldness | 1 answer |
| Opposite of timidity | 1 answer |
| Nerviness. | 1 answer |
| Foolish boldness. | 1 answer |
| foolhardiness | 14 answers |
| brazenness | 14 answers |
| Impudence | 33 answers |
| Nerve | 35 answers |
| hardihood | 38 answers |
| boldness | 46 answers |
| Chutzpah | 47 answers |
| Recklessness | 48 answers |
| Audacity | 49 answers |
| Fearlessness. | 49 answers |
| Cheek | 66 answers |
| Rashness | 74 answers |
| Courage | 77 answers |
| Haste | 86 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with TEMERITY (5)
She had been awestruck at her past temerity, and was struggling to make amends without thinking whether the sin quite deserved the penalty she was schooling herself to pay.
Just as exactly, too; for the correctness and propriety with which these terms are introduced have compelled the admiration of a Chief Justice and a Lord Chancellor.” Senator Davis wrote: “We seem to have something more than a sciolist’s temerity of indulgence in the terms of an unfamiliar art.
Philander,’ he said, ‘I am surprised that you, sir, a man of letters yourself, should have the temerity so to interrupt the progress of science.
Hither and thither he charged striking down the few who had the temerity to stand against him, and it was evident that unless a chance spear thrust brought him down he would rout the entire village and regain his prize.
Where was he going to? To the pole? It was madness! I began to think that the Captain’s temerity justified Ned Land’s fears.
Quotes with TEMERITY (3)
Did you slip in some cheese? Did it make you hate cheese, which you had previously loved? Why not sue a cheese-maker? Sue him for all the cheese he's got, drive him out of the cheese-making business! Did you burn your face with an iron? Why not sue Prometheus, the god that invented fire? Or an Iron Age chieftain, for having the temerity to popularise the metal.
The pioneer, the creator, the explorer is generally a single, lonely person rather than a group, struggling all alone with his inner conflicts, fears, defenses against arrogance and pride, even against paranoia. He has to be a courageous man, not afraid to stick his neck out, not afraid even to make mistakes, well aware that he is, as Polanyi has stressed, a kind of gambler who comes to tentative conclusions in the absence of facts and then spends some years trying to figure …
Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed ‘fundamental’ by my betters. Defiance has made me stubborn — possibly even arrogant — enough to shrug off rejection and all fears thereof, no matter how lacerating to the self-esteem these could be. It has given me the will to seek only to satisfy myself.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1957–2023).