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Meanings of have the effrontery in English

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Usage of have the effrontery in English
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They have the effrontery to say that I am the friend of public disorder.
Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
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Even Krag won't have the effrontery to deny that.
A Voyage to Arcturus
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You have the effrontery to call me an ingrate?
The Mad King
4
Who'd have the effrontery to look down on one of the Mitchells of Mitchellsville, South Carolina?
The Purple Heights
5
If this is conceit, I have the effrontery not to be a mite ashamed of it!
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
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You will probably have the effrontery to deny that you are the man who robbed Captain Kilmeny.
The Highgrader
7
You come to commit suicide, and yet you have the effrontery to put a stop to mine!
A Chair on the Boulevard
8
I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up.
Feminist dot com
9
Since you have the effrontery to say that those papers are of no use, I demand them back.
Saracinesca
10
You use a coward's arguments, and you have the effrontery to consider yourself a man of honour- anobleman
The Trampling of the Lilies
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Now, he might have the effrontery to deny what I had seen with my own eyes, and could swear to.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
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For a while Ralph wondered how the man could have the effrontery to call his notes by the name of evidence.
The King's Achievement
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And you have the effrontery to ask me to marry you with one breath, and to tell me this with the next.
Dawn
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He was sort of laughing at his own chagrin, that a third-world Eurasian cop would have the effrontery, et cetera-allquite ironic.
The godfather of kathmandu
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Why, Prince Jurgen, we wonder how you, who have done that perfectly unheard-of thing, can have the effrontery to call anything else preposterous!
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
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Major Vandyke did have the effrontery to come and see me, as Di had thought he would, and I had thought he wouldn't.
Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley
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