16 example sentences using insolent.
Insolent used in a sentence
Insolent in a sentence as an adjective
Those fing trolls are getting more insolent day by day.
Or opt out of the insolent uploading of all contacts and calendar entries in the phone to "the cloud".
[1]People fighting for marriage equality were called worse things than insolent.
How dare you lecture me on morality, you insolent, self-righteous gas bag.
Silence for the insolent fool!So arrogant they undoubtedly are. People inside the company find it hard to understand why anyone would not leap at the chance to work there.
When I do this it's because I'm irritated that it's hanging and I hope that my clicks will queue up and punish the insolent program.
If the stuff is inaccessible, then they can't --I mean, unless they're insolent, but most children will refrain from braking into locked closets.
A cocksure, conceited, and often insolent personSounds about right.
' This is like people saying that kinetic energy isn't proportional to the square of the velocity, and therefore ignore those insolent 'physicists'.
" He tells a story from Ben Franklin's autobiography outlining how insolent and opinionated he used to be, to the point that nobody could stand being around him.
The international community consistently let Putin cross boundaries with impunity, and he's been getting more and more insolent with each incident.
I noted in my original answer that "this does not absolve them of...responsibility".Some of the comments were implying that Apple didn't give credit because they have a culture that is insolent.
The opposite, I have read the Bible and it clearly supports slavery, stoning homosexuals and insolent children and many other things that are the opposite of a good civilization
For example, the sarcastic, eye-rolling banter found in Parliament raise my American hackles, making me wonder if any of those MPs had ever been "called out" for their insolent language when young.
The uncertainty of taxation encourages the insolence and favours the corruption of an order of men who are naturally unpopular, even where they are neither insolent nor corrupt.
Voting out of emotion to stick it to the other team is like stabbing yourself with a dagger.> Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
Insolent definitions
marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
See also: impudent snotty-nosed flip
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
See also: audacious barefaced bodacious bald-faced brassy brazen brazen-faced