insolent English

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insolent Adjective

— Insolent is to be contemptuous, arrogant or insulting. A man is insolent if he acts 'above himself'. On that occasion, Brummel was certainly insolent.

insolent

— adjective (= impudent, flip) marked by casual disrespect a flip answer to serious question the student was kept in for impudent behavior

— adjective (= audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brazen) unrestrained by convention or propriety an audacious trick to pull a barefaced hypocrite the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim — Los Angeles Times bald-faced lies brazen arrogance the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress — Bertrand Russell

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insolent English » English

impudent

impertinent

arrogant

cheeky

rude

saucy

haughty

brazen

barefaced

shameless

audacious

presumptuous

brazen-faced

bold

proud

pert

overbearing

contemptuous

sassy

disrespectful

brash

bald-faced

insulting

forward

disdainful

conceited

brassy

bodacious

uppish

uncivil

snotty-nosed

rough

overweening

offensive

impolite

flip

boorish

bold-faced

abusive

vulgar

vainglorious

unwonted

unusual

unruly

unashamed

unaccustomed

thoughtless

supercillious

stuck-up

strange

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Social behavior Behavior Polite

Impolite

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  rude impolite ill-mannered discourteous unpleasant offensive loutish churlish impudent cheeky impertinent insolent disrespectful sassy