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audacity

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application, available for Windows , OS X , Linux and other operating systems. Audacity was started in the fall of 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Audacity \Au*dac"i*ty\, n. Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness. The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce of men. --Tatler. Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints. With the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Chamden performed like men possessed and even had the audacity to mount wave after wave of attacks. ▪ Mandy had the utter audacity to roll her eyes coyly at Matthew. ▪ Mr Pastrana's audacity was roundly applauded, but there was ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. 2 fearlessness, intrepid daring.

Usage examples of audacity.

As for the young adventurer I thought him more to be pitied than to be blamed, for I did not believe that he knew I loved him, and it seemed to me that the idea of my despising him was enough vengeance for his audacity.

And they will the sooner set upon you, by reason of your comelinesse and audacity, in that you are not afeared at any time to walke in the streets.

Among the arrestees were scores of notable personages whom Jundrak would never have thought the police chief could have the audacity to arrest.

Enemy patrols must be attacked on every occasion, and our own patrols should be used with audacity.

And this time The Avenger has surpassed himself as regards his audacity and daring--so cold in its maniacal fanaticism and abhorrent wickedness.

To hint to such musked mariners of oil, and bone, and blubber, were little short of audacity.

It was ten days ago, on the battlefield of Carberry Hill, madam, when the infamous Bothwell had the audacity to make a public challenge in which he defied to single combat whomsoever would dare to maintain that he was not innocent of the murder of the king your husband.

As in Dari, the common people tended to idolize Fornis for her beauty and audacity.

He had the audacity to write a long letter to me, entreating me to go and see him, but I did not answer him.

Then you have the audacity to tell me the Earthling you have selected is now being held in the Penal Quarters for speaking treason.

Grimani to tell me that, if I had the audacity to present myself at his mansion, his servants had received orders to turn me away.

She had the audacity to wink at him while the lasses giggled and the men guffawed.

I will make you my wife, and I shall bless till my latest breath the lucky audacity to which I owe my being chosen before other men who would not have refused your hand, even without the fifty thousand crowns, which are nothing in comparison with your beauty and your wit.

That was the ship that the Saint and Orace and she were scheduled to capture by themselves, and the monumental audacity of the scheme made her smile.

The seceders owed from the first their successes not to their superior organization, to their better preparation, or to the better discipline and appointment of their armies, but to their very rashness, to their audacity even, and the hesitancy, cautious and deliberation of the government.