0 courage or confidence of a kind that other people find shocking or rude: --
1 unusually strong and esp. rude confidence in yourself: --
[ + to infinitive ] Our mayor has the audacity to claim credit for improvements he had nothing to do with.
He has the audacity to say that £300 million is not an incentive.
I do not think that any promoter of a scheme has ever had the audacity to put himself in that position.
Now he has the audacity to talk to us about reducing a fuel tax that they introduced.
We have the audacity to say that local authorities are profligate, when we know full well that they have to provide such services.
One can only stand aghast at the audacity of a statement like that.
I am amazed that he has the audacity to make that claim.
They actually had the audacity to claim that as their ship had passed the surveyors all responsibility on their part was at an end.
The opposition's audacity would quickly lead to an armed confrontation, since the co-existence of two powers is impossible.
