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temerity

noun

Reveal meaning and examples

Boldness that is excessive or presumptuous.

He had the temerity to criticize a performance he had not attended.

Dictionary practice example.

An uninvited visitor then had the temerity to demand control of the running order merely because he preferred a different sequence.