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Another word for insolence

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insolence

n.

effrontery, impertinence, presumption, audacity; see rudeness.

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Another word for insolence

noun

The quality of being arrogant:
arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, loftiness, lordliness, overbearingness, presumption, pride, pridefulness, proudness, superciliousness, superiority. See attitude
The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident:
assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall¹, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. (Informal) brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See attitude, courtesy

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Their crude productions, for the most part, were conspicuous rather for insolence and abusiveness than for logic or learning.
Personally unpopular, and the rapacity and insolence of her family was well known.
He achieved little success, but made himself detested by his insolence and profligacy, and was in turn replaced by Chares.
On the outbreak of the war of the Spanish Succession in 1700 the duke was again on the French side, but the insolence of Louis and of Philip V.
In spite of the incapacity which he displayed in this war, John was sent a little later 'to govern Ireland (1185); but he returned in a few months covered with disgrace, having alienated the loyal chiefs by his childish insolence and entirely failed to defend the settlers from the hostile septs.

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