insolently
- a word derived from insolent.
Example Sentences
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He insolently stopped to gas up his bike.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022
On the back cover, beside the track list, the same figure was in a phone box, staring insolently into the camera.
From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2016
We are in London in that riotous, rampant, and insolently creative year of 1963.
From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013
"We shouldn't have cases of women complainants being treated insolently," he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2013
Loitering stablehands eyed her insolently, but Ser Horas Redwyne averted his gaze as she passed, and his brother Hobber pretended not to see her.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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