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Chutzpah is the very much the wrong word for this behavior. It's arrogance. Maybe use audacity if you're afraid of being accused of bias for calling a kettle,
by njharman 11y ago
Chutzpah is the very much the wrong word for this behavior. It's arrogance. Maybe use audacity if you're afraid of being accused of bias for calling a kettle, black.
- ars 11y agoThat's kind of what Chutzpah means. What does the word mean to you?
- talideon 11y agoI've always understood it to mean 'audacity', but without any necessarily negative or positive implications.
- a_c_s 11y agoChutzpah is exactly the right word. "Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts', presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to". In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and condemnation. In the same work, Rosten also defined the term as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan". Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal responsibility, that renders others speechless and incredulous ... one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight. The implication is at least some degree of psychopathy in the subject, as well as the awestruck amazement of the observer at the display." - Wikipedia (because The Joys of Yiddish unfortunately isn't online) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah
- antod 11y agoChutzpah referred to the union defending the behaviour not the behaviour itself.