insolent

• It ill became such miserables to be insolent, and Carmichael taught them humility when he began to sound the praises of Drumtochty; but he could not make townspeople understand the unutterable satisfaction of the country minister, who even from old age and great cities looks back with fond regret to his first parish on the slope of the Grampians. —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
• "There is something very peculiar about him--insolent, I think He's a nice fellow, in my opinion," said Trevannion A very knowing chap," said Salisbury. —  Louis' School Days A Story for Boys
• The true spirit of the man, as happens in intoxication of another kind, rose to the surface, cruel, waggish, insolent--of an insolence long restrained, the insolence of the scholar, who always in secret, now in the light, panted to repay the slights he had suffered, the patronage of leaders, the scoffs of power. —  The Long Night
• They became insolent, and unwisely showed their contempt for the religious and social institutions which they aimed to overthrow. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• He went to sleep and snored and they threw him out with rude, insolent, and angry hands after the second act; and I brought suit against the management for damages, basing my claim on the idea that they had spurned my dusky brother on account of his race, color and previous condition of servitude. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)

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