Insolent definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary IN'SOLENT, a. Proud and ... with contempt of others; overbearing; domineering in power; as an insolent master. 1. Proceeding from insolence; haughty and contemptuous; as insolent words or behavior. 2. Unaccustomed; the primary sense. [Not used ... the student was kept in for impudent behavior" [syn: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flip] 2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an ... arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin ...
... Dictionary CONTUMELIOUS, a. [L. See Contumely.] 1. Haughtily reproachful; contemptuous; insolent; rude and sarcastic; as contumelious language. 2. Haughty and contemptuous; disposed to utter reproach, or to insult; insolent; proudly rude; as a contumelious person. 3. Reproachful; shameful; ignominious. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: arrogantly insolent Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 15th century insolently abusive and ... humiliating • contumeliously adverb Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. reproachful, insulting, or insolent. Derivatives: contumeliously adv. Etymology: ME f. OF contumelieus f. L ... or ?; 106), a. [L. contumeliosus.] 1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak. Curving a ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Abusive, calumnious, contemptuous, insolent, insulting, rude, supercilious, overbearing, arrogant, scornful, disdainful. Moby Thesaurus ...
... arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent] 3: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of ... an audacious maneuver > 2. contemptuous of law, religion, or decorum ; insolent 3. marked by originality and verve < audacious experiments > • audaciously adverb ... of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. `` Audacious traitor.'' --Shak. `` Such audacious neighborhood.'' --Milton. 3. Committed with ... dauntless, undaunted, valiant, stout-hearted. 2. Presumptuous, assuming, forward, impudent, insolent, shameless, unabashed, brazen, impertinent, full of effrontery. Moby Thesaurus adventuresome ... forward, free, greatly daring, harebrained, heedless, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, independent, insolent, insulting, intrepid, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, mettlesome, obtrusive, overbold, overpresumptuous, ...
... Date: 14th century 1. the quality or state of being insolent 2. an instance of insolent conduct or treatment Webster's 1913 Dictionary Insolence In"so*lence, n. [F. insolence, L. insolentia. See Insolent.] 1. The quality of being unusual or novel. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of ... contempt; brutal impudence. Flown with insolence and wine. --Milton. 3. Insolent conduct or treatment; insult. Loaded with fetters and insolences from ... To insult. [Obs.] --Eikon Basilike. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see insolent Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Insulting ...
... arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent] 2: made of or resembling brass (as in color or ... adj. & v. --adj. 1 (also brazen-faced) flagrant and shameless; insolent. 2 made of brass. 3 of or like brass, esp ... husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent, impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent, inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid ...
... treat with violence and wrong; to abuse by rude or insolent language; to injure by rough, rude treatment of any kind. Base and insolent minds outrage men, when they have hopes of doing it ... outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse. Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it ...
... arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1590 1. having the face ... candid, cheeky, downright, forward, frank, immodest, impertinent, impudent, indecent, indecorous, insolent, lost to shame, manifest, open, out-and-out, outright, overbold ...