Definition of Insolence

Insolence

The quality of being unusual or novel.

The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.

Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.

To insult.

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Insolence Quotations

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
Bryant H. McGill

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Andre Maurois

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
Mary Astell

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Sarah Fielding

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Insolence Translations

insolence in French is impertinence
insolence in German is Frechheit
insolence in Italian is impertinenza
insolence in Spanish is rabotada, insolencia

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