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.†
p. 27.3
- His peevish reproofs 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.†
p. 29.8insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
- Where will their insolence stop?†
p. 34.8 *
- 'Silence, eavesdropper!' cried Catherine; 'none of your insolence before me!†
p. 62.9
- 'Try for yourself, if that be your spirit: I have done, and yield the argument to your saucy insolence.'†
p. 74.9
- 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.†
p. 81.0
- 'Your land, insolent slut!†
p. 232.3
- Go with Mrs. Dean, and keep with her; and confine your insolence to her ears.†
p. 233.2insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
Definition:
rudely disrespectful -- especially toward someone in authority