| Main Entry: | insolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boldness, disrespect |
Synonyms: |
abuse, arrogance, audacity, back talk, brass, brazenness, cheek, chutzpah*, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, effrontery, gall, guff, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insubordination, lip, offensiveness, pertness, presumption, rudeness, sass, sauce, uncivility |
Antonyms: |
humility, modesty, politeness, respect |
| Concept: | [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
insolence; haughtiness; arrogance, airs; overbearance; domineering; tyranny., impertinence; sauciness; flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster; swagger, swaggering; bounce; terrorism., assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation., impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass., assumption of infallibility., saucebox (blusterer).
-verbs
be insolent; bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell., domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff, beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over., out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand., tempt Providence, want snuffing.
-adjectives
insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown., flippant, pert, fresh [U.S.], cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert., precocious, assumiing, would-be, bumptious., bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed; boldfaced, barefaced, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame., impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury " [Macbeth].
-adverbs
with a high hand; ex cathedra.
-phrases
one's bark being worse than his bite; "beggars mounted run their horse to death" [Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Plutarch].
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Antonyms: |
servility |
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