But I hope I'd have the gumption not to rationalize my actions by pretending I believed what I did was right.
Dave has always been an average Joe with little gumption to change things up.
Gumption from the local procurator fiscal would help, eg telling complainants to stop wasting police time and taxpayers ' money.
He criticized us for ` lacking the gumption ' to find things to do.
He knew full well that they did not have the gumption to test anything.
However, it takes some gumption to choose an underachieving local side, because they are nearer home than nearer to the Champions League.
I want to put a little gumption into what we do!
Mix a little sincerity and gumption in your hard-line approach, and perhaps you'll get somewhere and not antagonize others.
Over its lifetime, the battery may lose some of the gumption to keep a full charge, so picking up an extra battery might be beneficial.
Overall, it got a B+ grade, but viewers tended to be put off by the lack of realism and gumption in it.
The paper-a simple, four-page affair launched under the moniker The Daily Dramatic Chronicle-was started by Charles and Michael DeYoung on January 16, 1865 with a lot of gumption and a little help from a relative.
Yes, now it's something new -- use a little gumption!