Sentence examples for the effrontery from inspiring English sources

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the effrontery

noun

Insolent and shameless audacity.

  • We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.

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The effrontery was new.

The only effrontery left was the effrontery of dullness.

Brexit supporters would be traumatised by the effrontery.

The effrontery of special privilege, is tolerable among the bourgeoise only during good times.

"They tried to kill James Brown," he says afterwards, insulted, as if by the effrontery.

Instead West Brom had the effrontery to equalise – through none other than Yacob.

But the scientific establishment sided with Dr. Waksman, scolding Dr. Schatz for having the effrontery to challenge his professor.

It was all because he had the effrontery to embarrass the United States government.

US Republicans in particular could not bear the effrontery implicit in having a Communist-run entity on their doorstep.

It's hard to decide whether New Yorkers should be insulted by the effrontery or amused at the absurdity.

"Of course, of course," Mr. Ruiz said from Paris when I had the effrontery to phone him with the question.

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