Both Uses of
effrontery
in
Of Human Bondage
- In due course they were moved up, having learned little but a cheerful effrontery in the distortion of truth, which was possibly of greater service to them in after life than an ability to read Latin at sight.†
Chpt 17-18effrontery = rude and disrespectful behavior
- He denied with bland effrontery.†
Chpt 29-30 *
Definition:
rude and disrespectful behavior -- often made by someone who does not realize they are being rude -- as when someone is presumptuous or impolitely bold