All 7 Uses of
insolent
in
Kim
- Kim hailed a sweeper, who promptly retorted with a piece of unnecessary insolence, in the natural belief that the European boy could not follow it.†
Chpt 6 *
- He was about to acknowledge the driver's last insolence, when his eye—it was growing dusk—caught a figure sitting by one of the white plaster gate-pillars in the long sweep of wall.†
Chpt 7
- His evasion, of course, was the height of insolence, but it argued some resource and nerve.†
Chpt 7
- But it is great insolence on his part.'†
Chpt 7
- In place of the tremulous, shrinking trader there lolled against the corner an all but naked, ash-smeared, ochre-barred, dusty-haired Saddhu, his swollen eyes—opium takes quick effect on an empty stomach—luminous with insolence and bestial lust, his legs crossed under him, Kim's brown rosary round his neck, and a scant yard of worn, flowered chintz on his shoulders.†
Chpt 11
- Look at his eyes—how insolent!†
Chpt 13
- Mahbub stared stupefied at the magnificent insolence of the demand, which across the Border he would have paid with more than a blow.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(insolent) rudely disrespectful