Usage examples (34)

• The exuberant cry fades, stills, rises to an exultant roar and the creature bolts, startled by its own temerity.
• She even persists in these things, and is honestly horrified at what she calls the temerity of going without them.
• In a written statement, Doğan condemned what he described as the temerity of some members of the ruling party in resorting to threats and untruths to silence the media.
• Only Germans would be enraged by the temerity of it, or would call it temerity.