effrontery
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪˈfɹʌntəɹi/, /ɛˈfɹʌntəɹi/
effrontery
- (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
- We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
- (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
- Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.
- French: effronterie
- German: Dreistigkeit, Frechheit, Unverschämtheit
- Italian: sfrontatezza
- Portuguese: descaramento, acinte, desfaçatez
- Russian: бессты́дство
- Spanish: desfachatez, desvergüenza, descaro
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