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Recent Examples of insolence The insolence! Vulture, 16 Sep. 2022 But his insolence doesn’t offend the Elf, who’s been getting pretty close with some of these underlings—in particular the human woman Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi), with whom he’s developed an Arwen-Aragorn-like flirtation. Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 Sep. 2022 Harvey progresses from icy insolence to pitiable despondency, revealing the extent of Shaw’s lack of autonomy when he is accidentally triggered and walks into a lake; and Sinatra, in his best dramatic part, projects commanding fraternal feeling. Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022 Apparently, Lindsay's behavior upset the Survivor Gods more than Geo's insolence. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for insolence 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insolence
Noun
  • The praise is rarely as loud as the disrespect when Ange gets it right.
    Ahmed Walid, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Basically that poor enforcement had bred serious disrespect for the law, or at least a misunderstanding of it.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Such calls for regulatory actions against short sellers are all based on the assumption that short selling is nefarious — that daring to take a negative view of a company’s stock is tantamount to market manipulation, especially if the short sellers have the impudence to publicize their viewpoint.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • For many enslaved people, a mistress’s complaint of impudence could end in a beating.
    Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • For more info: Colonial Williamsburg Take a virtual tour COMMENTARY: Taking a kinder, gentler tone against the rudeness of politics Civility has been absent from much of this presidential campaign.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But the rudeness in question didn't occur at that event.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The impertinence of the Kodak fiend has become a vast, invisible apparatus of computation that is perpetually grinding data from the grist of our daily affairs, and exploiting such information for all sorts of ends.
    Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Her highly English mix of impertinence, acerbic prose and class obsession turned the then-flailing magazine into a success.
    Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 8 June 2024

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“Insolence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insolence. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.

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