Pertness
Pertness noun - Shameless boldness.
Usage example: the startling pertness with which the waitress responded to our request to make a substitution
Temerity
Temerity noun - Shameless boldness.
Usage example: she had the temerity to ask my boyfriend if she could go out with him should he and I ever break up
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- nerve and pertness
- nerve and temerity
- presumption and pertness
- presumption and temerity
- boldness and pertness
- boldness and temerity
- gall and pertness
- gall and temerity
- impertinence and pertness
- impertinence and temerity
- insolence and pertness
- insolence and temerity
- audacity and pertness
- audacity and temerity
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