Hutzpah (Noun)
Meaning
(Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- It took a lot of hutzpah for the small-town boy to approach a renowned Hollywood producer with a film idea.
- He showed unbelievable hutzpah when he casually dropped by his former employer and demanded his job back after six months.
- It takes great hutzpah for an individual with such questionable business practices to proclaim innocence publicly.
- Some praised the innovative marketing executive's creativity while others felt that she relied on her exceptional hutzpah.
- No one anticipated his colossal amount of hutzpah, presenting to critics after modifying barely five pages in an academic plagiarized article he entirely presented a revised result authored around then exclusively researched or more completely by someone else.