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Noun
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In 2014, WeatherTech founder David MacNeil had the audacity to blow a large chunk of his marketing budget on his first Super Bowl spot, paying $4 million for the airtime to compete on TV’s biggest advertising stage.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025 -
At one point, Jeff has the audacity to comment on Manchi’s English pronunciation when his Spanish is nonexistent, for example.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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No disrespect to Sir Paul McCartney, but Dwayne Carter Jr. (a.k.a. Lil Wayne) clearly had the superior musical medley of the night.—
Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Public disrespect should be met with the most immediate public apology through the same medium.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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But it’s got impudence and élan, and a feeling for life on the margins of English society.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Such calls for regulatory actions against short sellers are all based on the assumption that short selling is nefarious — that daring to take a negative view of a company’s stock is tantamount to market manipulation, especially if the short sellers have the impudence to publicize their viewpoint.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2023
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Still, the similarities are felt, stylistically and technically, in the collage-like form and the free manipulation of archival images—and, above all, in a shared sense of audacious yet exquisite aestheticism yoked to a strain of refined, resolute insolence.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2024
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And despite Aegon’s insolence, neither Criston nor Aemond could have predicted that the king would show up to the fight drunk on dragonback before Aemond can arrive.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
7 July 2024
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Last year, Lamar and Drake faced off via a series of back-and-forth diss tracks, each hurling increasingly inflammatory accusations and insults at one another.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance garnered so much attention for a variety of reasons — the choreography, the dancer waving the Sudan Gaza flag, the Drake diss, SZA’s appearance — but undeniably, there was also the denim.—
Aamina Inayat Khan,
StyleCaster,
10 Feb. 2025
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At least seven different civilian complaints have been lodged against the sergeant, alleging excessive force, discourtesy and abuse of authority.—
Shayla Colon,
New York Times,
11 Dec. 2024
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Henderson then accused her of discourtesy and ordered her transferred to the 73rd Precinct then back to the 79th Precinct in one day.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
16 July 2024
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Even those Republicans who are wary of his volatile leadership style, penchant for vulgarity and willingness to violate conservative orthodoxies are generally reluctant to air those criticisms publicly.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
21 Dec. 2024
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Corbet’s awkward forcing of his characters into his conceptual framework leads to absurdities and vulgarities—not least in the depiction of László’s first and only Black acquaintance, a laborer named Gordon (Isaach De Bankolé), as a heroin addict.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
3 Jan. 2025
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Even Sam, who hated conflict with a passion and preferred to let rudeness roll off her like water off the back of a duck, had a breaking point.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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According to a LinkedIn article by Yves Laurent Khoury, public rudeness has become increasingly common, especially in high-stress environments like customer service or public spaces.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Shamelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamelessness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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