Sample Sentences for
insolent
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    I don't recommend the hotel. The employees are insolent and unhelpful.
    insolent = rudely disrespectful
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    Even though the officer remained calm, the driver continued to be insolent and uncooperative.
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    Take your hands off me, you insolent rascal!  (source)
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    A big, robust guy with blond hair and a relatively insolent grin, Shane was supersmart.  (source)
    insolent = disrespectful
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    REASON FOR DETENTION: Insolence  (source)
    Insolence = rude disrespect
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    The Captain stared at him grimly, insolently, showing what he thought of Maine men.  (source)
    insolently = with rude disrespect
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    Of such insolences and attempted slights he, of course, took no notice, and in the opinion of most people his frank debonair manner, his charming boyish smile, and the infinite grace of that wonderful youth that seemed never to leave him, were in themselves a sufficient answer to the calumnies, for so they termed them, that were circulated about him.†  (source)
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    He found the Tican workmen to be uniformly insolent.†  (source)
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    ...to devise, say, a fitting reward for the hindrance and insolence of Gandalf the Grey.  (source)
    insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
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    ALAN moves away from him, insolently takes up a packet of DYSART's cigarettes from the bench, and extracts one.  (source)
    insolently = rudely disrespectfully
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    The dread in which their sort was held was apparent in the fact that everybody gave them the road, and took their ribald insolences meekly, without venturing to talk back.†  (source)
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    It was Bean, already in his flash suit, looking insolent.†  (source)
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    Paul's insolence Father Breuninger had chalked up to being part of an adolescent stage.  (source)
    insolence = rude disrespectful behavior
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