effrontery
Example Sentences
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One provision stands out for its sheer effrontery.
How many will have the effrontery to vote for someone nominated while presidential voting is underway, or after the election even if the nominator loses?
From Washington Post
“It’s an effrontery to have a slave master you have to walk past everyday.”
From New York Times
Enraged by her digital effrontery, he screams, then slaps her.
From New York Times
In the fall of 1928, the Republican Herbert Hoover ran against the Democrat Al Smith, a flamboyant former New York governor who had the effrontery to be Catholic and a son of immigrants.
From New York Times
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