Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unusually; strangely.
  • In an insolent manner; with contemptuous pride; haughtily; rudely; saucily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an insolent manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an insolent manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an insolent manner

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Examples

  • "insolently" to crowd us off the road, or to contend for his part of it, turned his team aside, leaving us double room to go by, and sometimes stopping until we had passed.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • It was not that it was challenging, but that it was so insolently business-like.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • Hence, things are a bit out of order, and it is Diarmuid whom I was addressing insolently, not Anita, of course!

    A is for Authenticity « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Eduard catches him and calls him on it, but a few minutes later, Tato insolently puts more slices of fruit in his mouth between squeezes of the syringe.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Zahar sprawled insolently in his chair, pausing only to turn his head and cough on his shoulder.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • When this man spoke insolently in denying the charge, London socked him.

    JACK LONDON'S WAR 2010

  • I saw Mr. Pike, yesterday, shaking his fist in a fury of hatred at one such craft that flew insolently past us not a quarter of a mile away.

    CHAPTER XXXIX 2010

  • Eduard catches him and calls him on it, but a few minutes later, Tato insolently puts more slices of fruit in his mouth between squeezes of the syringe.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Then the unfortunate Larry, truly half-devil and all child, had waxed sullen and retorted still more insolently; and the next he knew, the mate, descending upon him like a hurricane, had handcuffed him to the mizzen fife-rail.

    CHAPTER XIX 2010

  • Far from blaming the institution, Hare suggests that public schools are only as good and bad as the teachers; we see Blakemore insolently rebuffing one of those pedants who uses heavy sarcasm as a weapon of mass destruction.

    South Downs/The Browning Version – review 2011

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