Audacious vs Effrontery - What's the difference?
audacious | effrontery |
Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
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Impudent.
(uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
(countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
As an adjective audacious
is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.As a noun effrontery is
(uncountable) insolent and shameless audacity.audacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
Synonyms
* (willing to take bold risks) bold, daring, temeritous, temerariousAntonyms
* (willing to take bold risks) shy, cautious, prudentDerived terms
() * audaciously * audaciousnessExternal links
* * *effrontery
English
Noun
- We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
- Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery .