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insolent

in·so·lent

UK/ˈɪn.sə.lənt/ US/ˈɪnsʌlʌnt/ fairly common

adjective

1.

marked by casual disrespect

  • “a flip answer to serious question”
  • “the student was kept in for impudent behavior”
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2.

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
  • “bald-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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Origin

PIE word *swé From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īnsolēns (“unaccustomed, unwanted, unusual, immoderate, excessive, arrogant, insolent”), from in- (privative prefix) + solēns, present participle of solēre (“to be accustomed, to be wont”).

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