Sentence examples for be insolent from inspiring English sources

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be insolent

adjective

Insulting in manner or words.

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Is it forbidden to make an honest living?" "Don't be insolent!

In the world of Michel Houellebecq's later novels, such an idea would be insolent indeed.

Explaining the concept of it, Ivory says from Paris: "A fashion show ought to intimidate, be aggressive, be insolent.

But if the school were rescued from extinction and won a prestigious academic honor, would you be insolent enough to attend the awards dinner?

"Perhaps the courts think them to be insolent when they did not reply: In fact, when we had one of these prisoners assessed we discovered that they had a mental age of between seven and eight".

"Nobody has the right to be insolent towards the prime minister.

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I don't mean to continue being insolent, she said.

"You really are insolent, Miss Colley, he said".

Some blasphemers are jaunty, some are insolent, some are scary, some are nervous.

As comebacks go, it's insolent, crude, dismissive of authority and actively aggressive toward poseurs.

Culture because it is insolent, disrespectful, free, human, the opposite of fundamentalism and fantasism.

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