Sample Sentences for
effrontery
(editor-reviewed)

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    Can't you see how he has the effrontery to compare his own shabby surveillance of us with God's providence?  (source)
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    you ... have the effrontery to imagine...  (source)
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    To many, there is an effrontery in DRUMMOND'S very voice—folksy and relaxed.  (source)
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    You have the effrontery to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it's nothing much!  (source)
    effrontery = impolite boldness
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    Edgar was incensed by her effrontery, practically amounting to insubordination.  (source)
    effrontery = rude and disrespectful behavior
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    McMurphy would be embarrassed to absolute tears if he were aware of some of the simon-pure motives people had been claiming were behind some of his dealings. He would take it as a direct effrontery to his craft.  (source)
    effrontery = rude and disrespectful behavior -- often made by someone who does not realize they are being rude
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    ...the mild effrontery of this unaccountable scrivener.  (source)
    effrontery = impolite boldness
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    What effrontery!  (source)
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    He stood close to her, and the effrontery in his eyes repelled the old, vanishing self in her, yet drew all her awakening sensuousness.  (source)
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    Denis Eady was the son of Michael Eady, the ambitious Irish grocer, whose suppleness and effrontery had given Starkfield its first notion of "smart" business methods, and whose new brick store testified to the success of the attempt.  (source)
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    Leaving everybody to wonder where she had learned her effrontery from.†  (source)
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    He has the effrontery to tell me to my face that I'm too old to ride with him.†  (source)
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    He was picking people at random now in his fury, punishing innocent people for the dead man's effrontery.†  (source)
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