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insolent 音标拼音: ['ɪnsələnt] n. 侮慢无乱的人
a. 粗野的,无礼的,侮慢的 侮慢无乱的人粗野的,无礼的,侮慢的 insolent adj 1: marked by casual disrespect; " a flip answer to serious question"; " the student was kept in for impudent behavior" [ synonym: { impudent}, { insolent}, { snotty- nosed}, { flip}] 2: 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 [ synonym: { audacious}, { barefaced}, { bodacious}, { bald- faced}, { brassy}, { brazen}, { brazen- faced}, { insolent}] Insolent \ In" so* lent\, a. [ F. insolent, L. insolens, - entis, pref. in- not solens accustomed, p. pr. of solere to be accustomed.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forthwith make a jest at it. -- Pettie. [ 1913 Webster] If any should accuse me of being new or insolent. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant. " A paltry, insolent fellow." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all other folks as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his speaking, and of his bearing. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Can you not see? or will ye not observe . . . How insolent of late he is become, How proud, how peremptory? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior. [ 1913 Webster] Their insolent triumph excited . . . indignation. -- Macaulay. Syn: Overbearing; insulting; abusive; offensive; saucy; impudent; audacious; pert; impertinent; rude; reproachful; opprobrious. Usage: { Insolent}, { Insulting}. Insolent, in its primitive sense, simply denoted unusual; and to act insolently was to act in violation of the established rules of social intercourse. He who did this was insolent; and thus the word became one of the most offensive in our language, indicating gross disregard for the feelings of others. Insulting denotes a personal attack, either in words or actions, indicative either of scorn or triumph. Compare { Impertinent}, { Affront}, { Impudence}. [ 1913 Webster] 114 Moby Thesaurus words for " insolent": abusive, arrogant, assuming, atrocious, audacious, aweless, backhand, backhanded, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, callous, calumnious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, cocky, cold, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, crude, daring, defiant, defying, degrading, derisive, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, familiar, forward, fresh, greatly daring, hard, hardened, haughty, high- and- mighty, hubristic, humiliating, impenitent, imperative, impertinent, impolite, improvident, imprudent, impudent, inaffable, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insubordinate, insulting, irreverent, left- handed, lofty, magisterial, obdurate, obtrusive, offensive, outrageous, overbearing, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, overpresumptuous, oversure, overweening, peremptory, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, rash, regardless of consequences, ridiculing, rude, saucy, scurrile, scurrilous, self- appointed, self- elect, supercilious, superior, temerarious, unabject, unaccommodating, unchary, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncontrite, uncourteous, uncourtly, ungallant, ungracious, unmelted, unpolite, unrepentant, unrepenting, unsoftened, unspeakable, untouched, unwary, uppish, uppity, wise, would- be
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