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effrontery

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Pepe posters feel such effrontery is best met with loud, brash, insulting, and unstinting defiance.

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Quick take

audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of effrontery gathered in one view.

noun

audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for effrontery.

Example sentences

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Pepe posters feel such effrontery is best met with loud, brash, insulting, and unstinting defiance.

2

I can't decide if titling it "Restoring Internet Freedom" is a perverse sense of humour or just blatant effrontery.

3

Then complain loudly and repeatedly that someone had the effrontery to attribute...

4

I don't take kindly to someone pulling an accusation of racism out of his ass because I had the effrontery to question him.

5

In view of the ideological truce, the conformism of the buyers and the effrontery of the producers who supply them prevail.

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But it's quite another to become actively offended by the effrontery of a company demanding that you demonstrate the very skills they're hoping to hire you to apply on a daily basis!What are people worried about?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use effrontery in a sentence?

Pepe posters feel such effrontery is best met with loud, brash, insulting, and unstinting defiance.

What does effrontery mean?

audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"

What part of speech is effrontery?

effrontery is commonly used as noun.