Sentence examples for the insolent from inspiring English sources
adjective
Insulting in manner or words.
Mr. Cohen also lacks the insolent, comic panache that was Hoffman's trademark.
The Rondo-Burleske third movement lacked some of the insolent edge that Mahler asks for.
The particular object of Atta's abomination was the American skyscraper — the global symbol of the insolent power of the kuffar.
With my frayed, stained clothes, I could be the insolent teenager of the Midwestern clan I was trailing.
His portrayal is worlds apart from Hines's 1964 Blimp, and certainly from the "insolent, indolent" figure that Ford had envisaged.
No wonder the automotive cognoscenti met the insolent idea of an American sports car with derisive hoots.
"Could be a bad sign," says Fenwick. "In my experience, the more insolent the staff in a Chinese restaurant, the better the food".
Here, at last, was the word that explained the countless insolent acts of things, especially the infuriating intractability of plastic wrap.
It's a noble plan, but they are not prepared for the strange allure of the landscape — or for the handsome, insolent rapscallion Briton, played by David Farrar, who strides into their midst in khaki short-shorts, sporting the longest legs (and deepest man-tan) these sheltered sisters have ever seen.
Why must they now also contend with the consequences of the shortsighted, insolent and childish behavior of people sitting comfortably and safely back home?
His dream was to be like Maurice the dog, insolent and uncontrollable; the powers-that-be wanted him to be uptight, asexual and conservative, like Patapon the cat.
