All 4 Uses of
insolent
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Mr. Carton's manner was so careless as to be almost insolent.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- Here, they were shown into a little room, where Charles Darnay was soon recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine: while Carton sat opposite to him at the same table, with his separate bottle of port before him, and his fully half-insolent manner upon him.†
Chpt 2.4
- From this room, many such dogs have been taken out to be hanged; in the next room (my bedroom), one fellow, to our knowledge, was poniarded on the spot for professing some insolent delicacy respecting his daughter—_his_ daughter?†
Chpt 2.9
- Then, they are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended.†
Chpt 2.15
Definition:
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(insolent) rudely disrespectful