INSOLENT
\ˈɪnsələnt], \ˈɪnsələnt], \ˈɪ_n_s_ə_l_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of INSOLENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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; "bold-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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marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
By Princeton University
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marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Insolence.
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Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.
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Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior.
By Oddity Software
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Insolence.
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Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.
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Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Haughty or contemptuously offensive to others; insulting; very rude.
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Insolently.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Contemptuous of others, haughty, overbearing.
By Thomas Sheridan
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