All 4 Uses of
insolent
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- She stood there before them, in all the unconscious insolence of beauty, and stretched out her dainty hand to them, as if she would, by that one act, bridge over the conflict and bloodshed of the past decade.†
Chpt 5insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
- The latter literally gasped with horror at this foreign insolence, this impudence before her ladyship—who was English, now that she was Sir Percy's wife, and a friend of the Princess of Wales to boot.†
Chpt 5
- What the Vicomte thought and felt at that moment, when that long-limbed Englishman treated him with such marked insolence, might fill volumes of sound reflections....What he said resolved itself into a single articulate word, for all the others were choked in his throat by his surging wrath— "A duel, Monsieur," he stammered.†
Chpt 6 *
- She had but little real sympathy with those haughty French aristocrats, insolent in their pride of caste, of whom the Comtesse de Tournay de Basserive was so typical an example; but republican and liberal-minded though she was from principle, she hated and loathed the methods which the young Republic had chosen for establishing itself.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
rudely disrespectful -- especially toward someone in authority