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Boldness that is excessive or presumptuous.

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temerity

He had the temerity to criticize a performance he had not attended.
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An uninvited visitor then had the temerity to demand control of the running order merely because he preferred a different sequence.
From When Boldness Becomes Self-Regard.
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