effrontery

Example Sentences

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One provision stands out for its sheer effrontery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

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.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2023

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Walters, who died Friday at 93, was America’s Grand Inquisitor, a groundbreaking journalist who was unafraid to probe the unapproachable with people unaccustomed to such effrontery.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2022

Perhaps he had found a means of assaulting the effrontery of M. Minkoff.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole