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as in disrespect
disrespectful or argumentative talk given in response to a command or request
amazed that parents would tolerate such insolence from their teenaged children
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as in disrespectfulness
rude behavior
her frequent displays of insolence have lowered her standing among movie fans
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Recent Examples of insolence
In the worst-case scenario, the resistance escalated, paranoid readings of each party’s intentions dominated on both sides, and the classroom spiralled into suspicion, insolence, complaint, or outright rebellion.
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Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
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
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Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insolence
Noun
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The praise is rarely as loud as the disrespect when Ange gets it right.Ahmed Walid, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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For many enslaved people, a mistress’s complaint of impudence could end in a beating.Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
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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
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But the rudeness in question didn't occur at that event.Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2024
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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
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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 22 Dec. 2024.
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