All 11 Uses of
insolent
in
Crime and Punishment
- He had a reddish moustache that stood out horizontally on each side of his face, and extremely small features, expressive of nothing much except a certain insolence.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Afterwards he saw her lower lip quiver with indignation at her brother's insolent, cruel and ungrateful words—and his fate was sealed.†
Chpt 3.1
- And in this case his rags, the insolent police officer, the fever and this suspicion!†
Chpt 3.2
- Raskolnikov addressed Porfiry suddenly with a smile of insolent defiance, "I ran away from them to take lodgings where they wouldn't find me, and took a lot of money with me.†
Chpt 3.5
- Foo! how obvious and insolent that is!†
Chpt 3.5
- …and hypochondria, on the eve of a severe delirious illness (note that), suspicious, vain, proud, who has not seen a soul to speak to for six months, in rags and in boots without soles, has to face some wretched policemen and put up with their insolence; and the unexpected debt thrust under his nose, the I.O.U. presented by Tchebarov, the new paint, thirty degrees Reaumur and a stifling atmosphere, a crowd of people, the talk about the murder of a person where he had been just before,…†
Chpt 3.6
- "What insolence!" cried Dounia, springing up from her seat.†
Chpt 4.2
- I said just now to an insolent man that he was not worth your little finger…. and that I did my sister honour making her sit beside you.†
Chpt 4.4
- "Tell me, please," he asked suddenly, looking almost insolently at him and taking a kind of pleasure in his own insolence.†
Chpt 4.5
- "Tell me, please," he asked suddenly, looking almost insolently at him and taking a kind of pleasure in his own insolence.†
Chpt 4.5
- Seeing that his accusation of Sonia had completely failed, he had recourse to insolence: "Allow me, gentlemen, allow me!†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
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(insolent) rudely disrespectful