All 8 Uses of
insolent
in
Wuthering Heights
- He was not insolent to his benefactor, he was simply insensible; though knowing perfectly the hold he had on his heart, and conscious he had only to speak and all the house would be obliged to bend to his wishes.†
Chpt 4
- …wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him: she was never so happy as when we were all scolding her at once, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words; turning Joseph's religious curses into ridicule, baiting me, and doing just what her father hated most — showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness: how the boy would do HER bidding in anything, and HIS only when it suited his own inclination.†
Chpt 5
- Where will their insolence stop?†
Chpt 6 *
- 'Silence, eavesdropper!' cried Catherine; 'none of your insolence before me!†
Chpt 9
- 'Try for yourself, if that be your spirit: I have done, and yield the argument to your saucy insolence.'†
Chpt 10
- I couldn't withhold giving some loose to my indignation; but Catherine angrily insisted on silence, and threatened to order me out of the kitchen, if I dared to be so presumptuous as to put in my insolent tongue.†
Chpt 11
- 'Your land, insolent slut!†
Chpt 33
- Go with Mrs. Dean, and keep with her; and confine your insolence to her ears.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(insolent) rudely disrespectful