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Discover LudwigThe phrase "effrontery of" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe someone's boldness or nerve in a negative or presumptuous manner. Example: The politician had the effrontery of promising to lower taxes while also increasing government spending.
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The only effrontery left was the effrontery of dullness.
He has the sheer effrontery of a movie star.
The sheer, sexist, chauvinistic, patronising effrontery of the man!
The effrontery of special privilege, is tolerable among the bourgeoise only during good times.
The audacity of this work, and the cool effrontery of its maker, propelled him into partnership with Picasso.
Why do otherwise proud and self-respecting people submit to the sheer effrontery of the tyrant, to his spectacular indecency?
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But mainly, it's a vehicle for some very funny stories about Blackpool stag dos, men's head-in-sand reactions to illness, and the various lurid effronteries of the hospital experience.
Clare Luce was a renowned beauty and man-of-affairs (a feminist, she stoutly resisted the stylistic effronteries of she-speech).
No matter how blas we have become, the unnerving thought can scurry through the mind as we look out of the porthole that, really, we are complicit in an egregious effrontery on the laws of nature.
That part was a lie, as Tur herself pointed out later the crowds have been well covered but it allowed Trump to pass the cap of effrontery to everyone there.
"I was blown away by the courage and effrontery, really, of my brother," Berrigan recalled in a 2006 interview on the Democracy Now radio program.
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