insolently

Example Sentences

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He insolently stopped to gas up his bike.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Similarly arresting was the famous cover photograph, taken by her then-partner Robert Mapplethorpe, depicting an androgynous Smith in a white shirt, her jacket slung Sinatra-style over her shoulder and looking insolently into the camera.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2020

We are in London in that riotous, rampant, and insolently creative year of 1963.

From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013

"We shouldn't have cases of women complainants being treated insolently," he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2013

Crookshanks slowly chewed up the spider, his yellow eyes fixed insolently on Ron.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling