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The Grass is Singing
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She hated the exposed fleshiness of them, their soft brown bodies and soft bashful faces that were also insolent and inquisitive, and their chattering voices that held a brazen fleshy undertone.†
p. 104.4
She did not know that Dick made a habit of calling a general rest of five minutes each hour; he had learned they worked better for it; it seemed to her an insolence directed against her authority over them when they stopped, without permission, to straighten their backs and wipe off the sweat.†
p. 125.4

insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
She hated their sullenness, their averted eyes when they spoke to her, their veiled insolence; and she hated more than anything, with a violent physical repulsion, the heavy smell that came from them, a hot, sour animal smell.†
p. 129.5
That lazy insolence stung her into an inarticulate rage.†
p. 133.9
And he stormed against the natives themselves, who refused to work properly, who were insolent—and so on.†
p. 157.4 *
She dreaded hearing him speak, because now there was a new tone in his voice: familiar, half-insolent, domineering.†
p. 191.6
And in the attitude of Moses, in the way he moved or spoke, with that easy, confident, bullying insolence, she could see he was waiting too.†
p. 191.9

insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action

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