All 4 Uses
insolent
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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- Methinks, whimsical, wild, comical as he is, only Jacques Callot, now dead and gone, had succeeded better, and had made of him the maddest fighter of all his visored crew—with his triple-plumed beaver and six-pointed doublet—the sword-point sticking up 'neath his mantle like an insolent cocktail!†
Act 1
- The marquises in insolent attitudes seated on each side of the stage.†
Act 1 *
- Ask people of good sense if you would know The effect of your fine insolence— CYRANO (finishing his macaroon): Enormous!†
Act 1insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
- insolent!†
Act 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(insolent) rudely disrespectful -- especially toward someone in authority
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)