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"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bezczelność"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kpina"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hucpa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "atrevimento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"word": "lata"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "topete"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "țâfnă"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tupeu"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "náglostʹ",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "на́глость"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "naxálʹstvo",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "наха́льство"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xámstvo",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ха́мство"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dérzostʹ",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "де́рзость"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "дрскост"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "дрчност"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "drskost"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "drčnost"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "desfachatez"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"word": "fräckhet"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "khutspe",
"sense": "nearly arrogant courage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "חוצפּה"
}
],
"word": "chutzpah"
}
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