Insolent
Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual.
Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.
Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior.
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Insolent Quotations
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Jose Saramago
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
Homer
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Robert Walpole
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Junius
Insolent Translations
insolent in Italian is sfacciato, insolente
insolent in Latin is impudens
insolent in Norwegian is uforskammet
insolent in Spanish is deslenguado, procaz
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