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Despite the differences, the effrontery of a U.S. president mocking their relative weakness and implying that they’re all just a bunch of wannabe Americans brought them quickly together.

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It was followed by the trademark look of complete effrontery at the perceived injustice of it all, even though there was none.

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It added: “Perhaps someone will say the Jews deserve this fate. Saying this is in itself a colossal effrontery.”

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They are apparently seething over his rude effrontery, the serve-my-whims, feed-me-another-grape demands that they “indemnify” him from anything, ever, before he will free them from his odious presence by selling.

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The four band members were low-born Northerners from a dingy port town with no formal education; their success was against the natural order of things, an act of effrontery.

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