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UK
/ɹˈæʃnəs/
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NOUN
- the trait of acting rashly and without prudence
- the trait of giving little thought to danger
How To Use rashness In A Sentence
- From what epocha, therefore, to date the beginning of it, would seem rashness in us to undertake the determining. From the Talmud and Hebraica
- Your rashness has been the cause of our destruction. National Epics
- Afforded no opportunity on that journey to kill Claudius, he discovers the unexpected, an occasion to make use of what he calls rashness: Shakespeare
- He is famously modest and well behaved, especially for an athlete from a country that has made a national virtue out of what is politely called "brashness" -- he claims, in fact, not even to keep track of how many world records he holds. Firing The Thorpedo
- And the sight never failed to fill you with excitement that soon you would be caught up by the city's noise, energy, brashness, ebullience, smartness and wit.
- I like the brashness of youth, particularly when counterpointed by the underlying futility of it all.…
- She only smiled in scorn, and those who stood by wept to see one so young and so beautiful persisting in what they termed obstinacy and rashness, and entreated her to yield; but she refused, and by her eloquent appeal so touched their hearts that forty persons declared themselves Christians, and ready to die with her. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
- Rivera's brashness is less pronounced in real life than it is on TV, and it dissipates even further over time, especially when he's with his family. Being Geraldo
- For I have realized that it is the city's very boldness and brashness that clearly identifies it as truly Chinese.
- Although one hears in the symphony's first and third movements the now-familiar brashness and "muscularity" with which Schuman would always be identified, his compositional approach toward the second movement was different, though he had also used it in the chorale in Part II of the Third Symphony. NewMusicBox