The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word GALL which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2020.
Effrontery crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| GALL | 56 % | 4 |
| BRASS | 20 % | 5 |
| NERVE | 7 % | 5 |
| CHEEK | 5 % | 5 |
| SASS | 4 % | 4 |
| IMPUDENCE | 2 % | 9 |
| CHUTZPAH | 2 % | 8 |
| AUDACITY | 2 % | 8 |
| BOLDNESS | 2 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Effrontery
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- boldness
- brass
- face
- cheek
- nerve
- unblushing
- magician
- clown
- wizard
- stomach
- gall
- temerity
Crossword Answer definitions
GALL noun- Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
- The gall bladder.
- Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
- A feeling of exasperation.
- Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
- A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
- A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
- A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To bother or trouble.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
- To exasperate.
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To scoff; to jeer.
- A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
- A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result GALL
- Impudent boldness
- Rub sore
- Saddle sore
- Nerve
- Unmitigated __
- Irk big-time
- Chutzpah
- Effrontery
- Some nerve
- Brazen boldness
More clues leading to the result BRASS
- Copper and zinc alloy
- High-ranking military officers
- Military material?
- Self-assurance
- Military leaders
- Pentagon figures
- Top military
- Marching band, largely
- Orchestra section
- Effrontery
More clues leading to the result NERVE
More clues leading to the result CHEEK
- Impertinence
- Some nerve
- Effrontery
- Brazen nerve
- Target of grandparental pinching
- Sassiness
- One might be rosy or dimpled
- ___ by jowl
- Place for rouge
- Tot's pinchable part
More clues leading to the result SASS
More clues leading to the result IMPUDENCE
More clues leading to the result CHUTZPAH
- Real nerve
- *Unmitigated gall
- Audacity
- Cheek
- Impudence
- Alan Dershowitz book
- Gall
- Unmitigated gall
- Impudence; gall
- Cheekiness