Temerity 1100 Words You Need Week 16 Day 4

Temerity 1100 Words You Need

Temerity 1100 Words You Need

/təˈmer.ɪ.ti/ (noun)

extra courage to do or say something that is shocking and outrageous, effrontery, bravery, nerve, audacity, gall, boldness, imprudence:

True, some few of Reverend Andrews’s close friends and supporters thought that perhaps he might have had a right to defend himself and his son. But even then most of us maintained our silence—even after the local outlaw who fired on the parsonage was charged merely with disturbing the peace (and, temporarily, the silence) of our town; even after the local sheriff went to our parsonage, as directed by our local prosecutor, and questioned the minister about his past, and why he had a gun and had the temerity to use it (never mind in defense of his life and our property) addressing the Negro minister twice as “boy”.

Source: The book: A Stranger in the Kingdom

I mean, think of this. I actually had the temerity to inquire as to where the birth certificate was and why the president of the United States would not turn over that birth certificate to the national media and end the noise. And I also said four times in one show, “I believe the president is a citizen of the United States.” I don’t buy into the Kenyan secret agent stuff, as Jim Geraghty of National Review put it. I mean, I don’t buy into that.

Source: https://www.mediamatters.org/

I was surprised to read in the Cambrian News that the coroner, Dewi Pritchard Jones, had the temerity to express his low regard for Bronglais Hospital, on the basis of one case he had pronounced upon. I was also surprised that the pathologist placed the blame for the patient’s death on one event that occurred at Bronglais, when clearly she had suffered cumulative damage as a result of numerous falls, a stroke and dementia.

Source: http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/

Antonym: timidity, reticence

Farsi: جسارت