bodaciousnessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bodaciousness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being bodacious.
   • 1884 June 21, “‘Delightful Deceits’”, in Harry W. Frost, editor, Saturday Evening Lance, volume II, number 25, Topeka, Kan., →OCLC, page 1, column 6:

     Th’ bodaciousness of him thinkin’ I wuz fool nuff to b’leeve it riled me, hit did, an I up and hooped him.

   • 2005, Dorothy Otnow Lewis, “Adult Antisocial Behavior, Criminality, and Violence”, in Benjamin J[ames] Sadock, Virginia A[lcott] Sadock, editors, Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 8th edition, volume II, Philadephia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, chapter 26 […], page 2260, column 1:

     The silliness of a mink tuxedo, the hypersexuality and indiscretions of a sexagenarian cavorting with teenagers, the “bodaciousness” of a Florida banker flaunting his multimillion-dollar art collection as his banking empire collapses—these kinds of behaviors go beyond simple greed and arrogance.

   • 2009, Jabari Asim, “At the Threshold”, in What Obama Means … For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 78:

     […] Fox contributor Liz Trotta jokingly wished for the assassination of Sen. Barack Obama. […] To many African Americans, more disturbing than the sheer bodaciousness of such comments was the probability that Huckabee, Clinton, and Trotta merely said aloud what many, many others were thinking.