Audacity of a kind that inverts the frame — the offender claiming the victim's standing.
Travelling internationally with an active arrest warrant to a city that does not welcome you.
EtymologyYiddish, from Hebrew ḥuṣpāh.
NoteIts canonical illustration — the man who murders his parents then pleads for mercy as an orphan — is exactly the structure two entries here went hunting for. Tu quoque and DARVO are the technical siblings; this is the ordinary-English one.
Sightings in public 0
No documented use yet. Every word in every dictionary started exactly here, and the only thing that ever moved one was somebody using it where other people could see.