Thesaurus / insolence

insolence

How to use insolence in a sentence

Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

Never again would he sit behind that wheel rejoicing in the insolence of speed.

Then she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.

Then he looked with cold insolence from the dishes set before Garnache to those which were being set for himself.

There was in his look and manner, even in his attitude, a something that was almost like a carelessly veiled insolence.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

Madame stood hand on hip, the flush fading slowly, her glance resuming its habitual lazy insolence.

Charges of incapacity, cruelty, brutal insolence, were hurled backward and forward.

He gives quite a false description of something of mine, and talks about my “insolence.”

“We have stronger evidence against you,” said Duncan, confronting him with an undaunted look, before which his insolence quailed.

Morgiana, seeing she was not likely to become a rival, had patronized and protected her against the insolence of the eunuchs.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

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OCTOBER 26, 1985