Definitions for temerities

temerities te·mer·i·ty

Spelling: [tuh-mer-i-tee]
IPA: /təˈmɛr ɪ ti/

Temerities is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 274 anagrams from letters in temerities (eeeiimrstt).

Definitions for temerities

noun

  1. reckless boldness; rashness.

Origin of temerities

1400-50; late Middle English temeryte Latin temeritās hap, chance, rashness, equivalent to temer(e) by chance, rashly + -itās -ity

Examples for temerities

Just two weeks ago, The New York Times Magazine had the temerity to ask, “Has the Libertarian Moment Finally Arrived?”

Should the caller have the temerity to ask where they were, the phone call would be quietly ended.

Instead, MacMillan has the temerity to issue a caveat mid-thrust.

But there are things which no strength of mind, no temerity can resist.

Some time ago, I wrote a blog post in which I had the temerity to question the validity of chronic Lyme diagnoses.

Some of them had the temerity to begin giving us a fire in the rear.

Every advance which he had the temerity to make was by me rejected with indignation.

There was a sort of brutal temerity in his prudence, the temerity of a man with big fists.

Thus was he justified of his temerity; the day was saved—that is, to-morrow was.

Nor is it where the gunman then viciously pistol whips his victim repeatedly for having the temerity not to die.

Word Value for temerities
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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