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Meanings of insolence in English
Portuguese
atrevimento Catalan
barra The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.
Russian
дерзость Synonyms
Examples for "crust"
Examples for "crust"
1
It was common in all levels of society, including the upper crust.
2
Key element: Allow the base to crust over to create the socarrar.
3
Therefore, a fair amount of each still survives in the earth's crust.
4
No freshly churned butter on your crust-free organic toast-fingers every second Sunday?'
5
Its basic menu features pizza products in various sizes and crust types.
1
Whisk in oil and use dressing within several hours for optimum freshness.
2
And in this cool freshness we hear the song of the lark:
3
The pleached walks and parterres were in all the freshness of June.
4
I like your restaurants, and the great freshness in young people here.
5
Yet the city looked pleasant enough in the freshness of early June.
1
Can you imagine such impudence!' 'Anything since then?' asked the other hoarsely.
2
Learn to lie; have the courage of a criminal, and his impudence.
3
There was rare impudence in the laughter with which she answered him.
4
Class elevation is pretence, not superiority; complacence, not wisdom; impudence, not power.
5
His impudence in coming to you, of all men, is perfectly intolerable.
1
It was the last drop in the cup of gall, she thought.
2
The cares of the world did not gall the shoulders of Mme.
3
She often ate the bread of sorrow steeped in wormwood and gall.
4
The gall of the bear is used as medicine internally and externally.
5
Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
1
Housebuilders, not used to such impertinence from a Conservative minister, hit back.
2
But I would not permit the impertinence were I in your case.
3
But it was quite simply said, without the faintest idea of impertinence.
4
She begged my pardon for her impertinence; I remain friendly towards her.
5
She had mock-scolded him for impertinence, and left with her heart eased.
1
Photograph: Plan UK The cheekiness of the ad carried some risks.
2
Consequently, the little thief was restored to his usual state of jaunty cheekiness.
3
None of the winning cheekiness of a young Justin Timberlake.
4
An overwhelming sense of my colossal cheekiness made me stammer.
5
He missed her voice, her cheekiness, her infectious laugh.
Usage of insolence in English
1
It was insolence and not insolence; it was modesty and not modesty.
2
The officer in command had arrived full of threats and insolence: Mlle.
3
The age of good breeding has passed; insolence has taken its place.
4
He looked me full in the face with stupid insolence, and said:
5
He was a magnificent specimen of the insolence natural to victorious soldiers.
6
Loge broke in quickly, with studied insolence: I object to the delay.
7
There was violence in the action, but it did not hold insolence.
8
Ferocity and insolence were not among the vices of the national character.
9
But the insolence and the megalomania of modern Germany made this difficult.
10
Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the insolence of others.
11
The other orders likewise he treated with the same insolence and violence.
12
Now there was a world of contempt and insolence in this laugh.
13
He would not endure such insolence; he would stop where he was.
14
The gambler looked at him with the cool insolence that characterized him.
15
She had the insolence to extend her hand for the customary salutation.
16
The virtue of women is doubted above all things with terrible insolence.
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Translations for insolence
Portuguese
Russian
Insolence through the time
Insolence across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common