forwardness

noun

Definition of forwardnessnext
as in boldness

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  1. audacity
  2. discourtesy
  3. impudence
  4. insolence
  5. disrespect
  6. rudeness
  7. diss
Noun
  • There’s only one word for it: chutzpah, an extreme level of audacity, gall or nerve.
    Steve Bousquet, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
  • And today, in 2024, people have the audacity to say bitcoin wasn't hijacked.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of audacity
Noun
  • At least seven different civilian complaints have been lodged against the sergeant, alleging excessive force, discourtesy and abuse of authority.
    Shayla Colon, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Henderson then accused her of discourtesy and ordered her transferred to the 73rd Precinct then back to the 79th Precinct in one day.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024
Definition of discourtesy
Noun
  • Such calls for regulatory actions against short sellers are all based on the assumption that short selling is nefarious — that daring to take a negative view of a company’s stock is tantamount to market manipulation, especially if the short sellers have the impudence to publicize their viewpoint.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • For many enslaved people, a mistress’s complaint of impudence could end in a beating.
    Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
Definition of impudence
Noun
  • Still, the similarities are felt, stylistically and technically, in the collage-like form and the free manipulation of archival images—and, above all, in a shared sense of audacious yet exquisite aestheticism yoked to a strain of refined, resolute insolence.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • And despite Aegon’s insolence, neither Criston nor Aemond could have predicted that the king would show up to the fight drunk on dragonback before Aemond can arrive.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
Definition of insolence
Noun
  • There was a celebration in the building on New Year’s Eve, with some strands apparently still stuck in the rafters — no disrespect to KU.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The vast majority of females in the book are described with vulgar disrespect by the various characters and the narrator.
    Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of disrespect
Noun
  • Many adults will think that the host’s rudeness justifies an angry response — and of course, that would vastly entertain the children.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • However, sometimes that truth can come off as blunt to the point of rudeness.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of rudeness
Noun
  • Drake and Lamar then began trading diss tracks which included increasingly dramatic accusations.
    Conor Murray, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The filings mark an unprecedented escalation of the two musicians’ ongoing beef, which exploded into the court of public opinion in the spring when Drake and Lamar began lobbing rapid-fire diss and response tracks at one another.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of diss
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