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

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

Thompson, skilled at both effrontery and anxiety, mines that tension brilliantly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2022

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

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole