insolent
adjective
boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting.
insolently
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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
Similarly arresting was the famous cover photograph, taken by her then-partner Robert Mapplethorpe, depicting an androgynous Smith in a white shirt, her jacket slung Sinatra-style over her shoulder and looking insolently into the camera.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2020
“The decision was not simply lawless, but insolently so,” he wrote in The Atlantic.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
We are in London in that riotous, rampant, and insolently creative year of 1963.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 15, 2013
Then Erik turned his full attention back to Tino, standing insolently before him.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
