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chutzpah
/ ˈʊٲə /
noun
- informal.shameless audacity; impudence
chutzpah
- Yiddish term for courage bordering on arrogance, roughly equivalent to “nerve” (in the slang sense): “It took a lot of chutzpah to make such a controversial statement.”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chutzpah1
C20: from Yiddish
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But, again, they are worth laughing at for their venal stupidity, empty reasoning, and sheer chutzpah in preaching the unbelievable to the unknowing and uncaring.
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You don't have the chutzpah to call your raspberry spread business "a love language" unless you're unabashedly looking for love yourself.
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To call it hypocritical is laughably inadequate and chutzpah doesn't even begin to describe it.
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“There’s a lot of chutzpah in being a spy,” says Blanchett.
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There are some insights into his family — his macho father is an “Indiana Jones . . . with chutzpah,” who was very supportive of Paul and his endeavors.
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