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effrontery
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synonyms: temerity, cheek, hardihood ???
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Definition:impertinence; audacity
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my wife’s a respectable woman—has been exposed to the persecution, and insults, and effrontery of young upstarts, scoundrels
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he made a comment about my not wearing a tie and made some smirky remark about the lumber jacket. I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery.
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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What I feel when in my presence she has the effrontery to support her errors by blasphemously quoting the teaching of Christ! It chokes me! It makes me hot all over to hear my sister propounding her doctrines and trying to distort the Gospel to suit her, when she purposely refrains from mentioning how the moneychangers were driven out of the Temple.
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories
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When the supports attached to Tushin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not captured by the French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended guns.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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