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insolent
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synonyms: impertinent, asperity, impudent, hardihood, cheeky, irreverent ???
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Definition:insultingly rude or disrespectful
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Not a dandelion in sight here, the lawns are picked clean. I long for one, just one, rubbishy and insolently random and hard to get rid of and perennially yellow as the sun.
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Wellington: I have never, in all my campaigns, encountered such insolence! Your master survives an honourable duel and you cheek him like a French whoopsy!
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Duel and Duality
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"I have not seen her for many years, but I very well remember that I never liked her, and that her manners were dictatorial and insolent. [...]"
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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The unfathomable eyes gazed ironically and insolently at him. Insufferably insolent and challenging was the effect in Alexey Alexandrovitch's eyes of the black lace about the head, admirably touched in by the painter, the black hair and handsome white hand with one finger lifted, covered with rings.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Catherine angrily insisted on silence, and threatened to order me out of the kitchen, if I dared to be so presumptuous as to put in my insolent tongue.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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