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chutzpah

/ ˈʊٲə /

noun

  1. informal.
    shameless audacity; impudence
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


chutzpah

  1. 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.”
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Origin of chutzpah1

C20: from Yiddish
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To call it hypocritical is laughably inadequate and chutzpah doesn't even begin to describe it.

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“There’s a lot of chutzpah in being a spy,” says Blanchett.

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There are some insights into his family — his macho father is an “Indiana Jones . . . with chutzpah,” who was very supportive of Paul and his endeavors.

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His big donors no doubt applauded his chutzpah in just outright declaring that there is no longer any need to ever hire another woman or racial or ethnic minority.

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Trump had the chutzpah to call himself "friend of police":

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