Both Uses of
insolent
in
Great Expectations
- She put the mug down on the stones of the yard, and gave me the bread and meat without looking at me, as insolently as if I were a dog in disgrace.†
Chpt 8 *insolently = with rude disrespect
- Then, Drummle glanced at me, with an insolent triumph on his great-jowled face that cut me to the heart, dull as he was, and so exasperated me, that I felt inclined to take him in my arms (as the robber in the story-book is said to have taken the old lady) and seat him on the fire.†
Chpt 43
Definition:
rudely disrespectful