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insolently





ADVERB
proudly
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ADVERB
saucily
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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

And certainly they couldn’t be spoken to insolently.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou


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