insolent
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
insolent
- Insulting in manner or words.
- Synonyms: arrogant, bold, cocky, impudent
- rude
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus, […]!”
- Synonyms: disrespectful, impertinent, insubordinate, offensive
- cheeky
- See also Thesaurus:cheeky
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
- French: insolent
- German: beleidigend, verletzend
- Italian: insolente
- Portuguese: insolente
- Russian: вызыва́ющий
- French: insolent
- German: anmaßend, überheblich, frech, dreist, ungebührlich, unverschämt, unverfroren, kaltschnäuzig, dummdreist, dummfrech, patzig, vorlaut, insolent
- Italian: insolente
- Portuguese: insolente
insolent (plural insolents)
- A person who is insolent.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 78:
- What a way do you put yourself in miss! said the insolent.
- 2010, Louisa Shea, The Cynic Enlightenment: Diogenes in the Salon (page 7)
- Diogenes Laertius reports that Diogenes was apt to take the identification with the dog at face value, as when he lifted his leg and relieved himself on a group of young insolents who teased him with a dog's bone […]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 78:
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