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insolent

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insolent in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. unrestrained by convention or propriety
    "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
    audacious  barefaced  bodacious  bald-faced  brassy  brazen  brazen-faced  insolent 
  2. marked by casual disrespect
    "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
    impudent  insolent  snotty-nosed  flip 
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