chutzpah

Definitions

Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.

informal, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold⟳ a tip⟳ and explain⟳ why we are doing so. Few of us have⟳ the chutzpah to do this.”

“But seriously, the ability to just come⟳ out and put⟳ on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah.”

“Okay, okay, okay… First of all, “shutspah” is actually pronounced “khootspah”. But, but-but-but the idea, the idea that daily fantasy sites are using this law to claim⟳ they’re not gambling is not chutzpah, it’s khorseshit!”

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