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chutzpah
/ ˈʊٲə /
noun
informalshameless 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.”
Word History and Origins
Origin of chutzpah1
Example Sentences
“Another Simple Favor” pushes the limits of mainstream filmmaking every chance it gets, in ways so cringeworthy and stupefying that it’s difficult not to, at the very least, respect Feig’s chutzpah.
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.
You don't have the chutzpah to call your raspberry spread business "a love language" unless you're unabashedly looking for love yourself.
To call it hypocritical is laughably inadequate and chutzpah doesn't even begin to describe it.
“There’s a lot of chutzpah in being a spy,” says Blanchett.
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