All 4 Uses of
insolent
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- An insolent pack of little bitches since your poor mother died.†
Chpt 10
- A haughty bronze replied: —I'll complain to Mrs de Massey on you if I hear any more of your impertinent insolence.†
Chpt 11 *insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
- Insolent driver.†
Chpt 15
- it if I went by his advices every blessed hat I put on does that suit me yes take that thats alright the one like a weddingcake standing up miles off my head he said suited me or the dishcover one coming down on my backside on pins and needles about the shopgirl in that place in Grafton street I had the misfortune to bring him into and she as insolent as ever she could be with her smirk saying Im afraid were giving you too much trouble what shes there for but I stared it out of her yes he was awfully stiff and no wonder but he changed the second time he looked Poldy pigheaded as usual like the soup but I could see him looking very hard at my chest when he stood up to open the door for me it†
Chpt 18
Definition:
rudely disrespectful -- especially toward someone in authority