effrontery

Example Sentences

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One provision stands out for its sheer effrontery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

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

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024

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

“Shut up over there,” Miss Annie screamed through her shutters as Ignatius gathered his smock about him and swept into the hall contemplating his most important problem: organizing a new assault against the minx’s effrontery.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole