Insolent
['ɪns(ə)l(ə)nt] or ['ɪnsələnt]
Definition
(a.) Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual.
(a.) Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.
(a.) Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Impertinent, impudent, saucy, pert, malapert, flippant, rude, abusive, overbearing, domineering, contemptuous, without humility or self-respect.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Haughty, overbear, ing, contemptuous, abusive, saucy, impertinent, opprobrious,offensive, pert, outrageous, scurrilous, rude,[See ABUSIVE_and_PERT]
Typist: Nicholas
Definition
adj. overbearing: insulting: rude.—n. In′solence.—adv. In′solently.
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Examples
- Then, they are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I put my request in an absurd, almost insolent form. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He was ugly and insolent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In this state Frank Churchill had found her, she trembling and conditioning, they loud and insolent. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Any mental activity but their own struck them as being insolent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So insolent, so trivial, so capricious, so mercenary, so careless, so hard to touch, so hard to turn! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Rebecca had her revenge now upon these insolent enemies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I had only noticed her temper at firSt. I noticed her wretchedness now--and wretchedness is not uncommonly insolent, you will find, in humble life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Lucy, she is insolent; and, I believe, false. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I had not felt the man's insolent letter, but I felt deeply the woman's atoning kindness. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One instance was that the son of one of these experts was employed in the office, and when he was told to do anything would not do it, or would give an insolent reply. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No insolence of Mr. Fairlie's, if he chose to be insolent, could wound me now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- What a face she had--so comely--so insolent and so selfish! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She passes close to him, with her usual fatigued manner and insolent grace. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And this insolent peasant,--he too, I warrant me, is to be dismissed scatheless? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You are insolent. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Oh, barbarously insolent! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- When we got to the point where we employed eighty of these experts they formed a union; and knowing it was impossible to manufacture lamps without them, they became very insolent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- How insolent in me to turn on her thus for what, after all, was no fault--only an excess of conscientiousness on her part. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And how dare you encourage him, you insolent minx? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- That ugly dream of insolent words spoken about herself, could never be forgotten--but could be put aside till she was stronger--for, oh! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Insolent girl! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Mr Wrayburn, at least I know very well that it would be idle to set myself against you in insolent words or overbearing manners. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and, by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And all this with such a sneering, leering, insolent face that I would have knocked him down twenty times over if he had been a man of my own age. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You're an insolent impertinent fellow. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He was insolent, as all ignorant people are. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Martin went, and Matthew sent another insolent laugh after him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had resumed his seat, the cigar still projecting at an insolent angle from the corner of his mouth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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