All 7 Uses of
insolent
in
Jane Eyre
- Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.†
p. 18.6
- I put my request in an absurd, almost insolent form.†
p. 156.7
- And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence?†
p. 158.1 *insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
- I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a salary.†
p. 158.1
- Au reste, we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached — mutual alliance and reliance; confidence thence resulting —insolence accompanying — mutiny and general blow-up.†
p. 206.9
- I suppose I do come on; though in what fashion I know not; being scarcely cognisant of my movements, and solicitous only to appear calm; and, above all, to control the working muscles of my face — which I feel rebel insolently against my will, and struggle to express what I had resolved to conceal.†
p. 282.3insolently = with rude disrespect
- Oh, Adele will go to school — I have settled that already; nor do I mean to torment you with the hideous associations and recollections of Thornfield Hall — this accursed place — this tent of Achan —this insolent vault, offering the ghastliness of living death to the light of the open sky — this narrow stone hell, with its one real fiend, worse than a legion of such as we imagine.†
p. 346.8
Definition:
rudely disrespectful -- especially toward someone in authority