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Definition
rudely disrespectful
- Where will their insolence stop?Chapter 6 (72% in)
- 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.Chapter 4 (83% in)
- ...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.Chapter 5 (54% in)
- 'Silence, eavesdropper!' cried Catherine; 'none of your insolence before me!Chapter 9 (84% in)
- 'Try for yourself, if that be your spirit: I have done, and yield the argument to your saucy insolence.'Chapter 10 (74% in)
- 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.Chapter 11 (30% in)
- 'Your land, insolent slut!Chapter 33 (32% in)
- Go with Mrs. Dean, and keep with her; and confine your insolence to her ears.Chapter 33 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "insolent" in Wuthering Heights.
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