Definitions for temerity

temerity te·mer·i·ty

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

Temerity is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in temerity (eeimrtty).

Definitions for temerity

noun

  1. reckless boldness; rashness.

Origin of temerity

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

Examples for temerity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for temerity
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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