insolently

Example Sentences

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He insolently stopped to gas up his bike.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

“The decision was not simply lawless, but insolently so,” he wrote in The Atlantic.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2019

On the back cover, beside the track list, the same figure was in a phone box, staring insolently into the camera.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2016

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

From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013

And certainly they couldn’t be spoken to insolently.

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