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Example sentences from the Web for chutzpah In an age of extreme building, anything was possible if you just had enough raw material and the chutzpah to defy known limitations.
The Story Behind the Eiffel Tower’s Forgotten Competitors | Fiona Zublin| August 10, 2020| Ozy
I lack the wherewithal to start my own competing certifying board, to say nothing of the chutzpah .
Rand Paul and the Certification Racket | Russell Saunders| August 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Dad reached the heights of chutzpah when he went to the theater with a friend one night and spotted the actress Gwen Verdon.
Almost Famous: A Father's Day Story | Alex Belth| June 15, 2014| DAILY BEAST
They had the chutzpah to send me a test email from an outlook.com address.
Iran Is Using a Neocon to Hack Its Foes | Eli Lake| May 30, 2014| DAILY BEAST
She brings her own tea bags in a neat Ziploc bag, and I am mildly awed at her preparedness and chutzpah .
Marlo Thomas Says Girls Should Feel Free to Be Like Hannah Horvath | Emily Shire| April 24, 2014| DAILY BEAST
To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah .
How to Cure Your Anxiety? Read Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady,’ Of Course. | Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkind| September 26, 2013| DAILY BEAST
It was his firm desire to bring some chutzpah into the all too predictable and dreary cuisine on this part of the continent.
The Land of Look Behind | Paul Cameron Brown
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noun informal shameless audacity; impudence
Word Origin for chutzpah C20: from Yiddish
Words nearby chutzpah Chu Teh, chute the chute, chutist, chutney, chutzpa, chutzpah , Chuuk, Chuuk Islands, Chuvash, Chuvash Autonomous Republic, Chuvashia
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Words related to chutzpah gall, audacity, boldness, arrogance, spine, nerve, brass, backbone, balls
Cultural definitions for chutzpah [ (khoot -spuh, hoot -spuh) ]
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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