Sample Sentences for
insolent
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    Take your hands off me, you insolent rascal!  (source)
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    REASON FOR DETENTION: Insolence  (source)
    Insolence = rude disrespect
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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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    A big, robust guy with blond hair and a relatively insolent grin, Shane was supersmart.  (source)
    insolent = disrespectful
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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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    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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    I go in my own room, the one Dona Laura had special made for me so I could be with my santos at peace and not have to bear the insolence and annoyance of young girls with no faith in the spirits.  (source)
    insolence = disrespectful behavior or actions
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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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    You're going to listen, and no more insolence from you!  (source)
    insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
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