insolence

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insolence englannista suomeksi

Contemptible, ill-mannered conduct; insulting: arrogant, bold behaviour or attitude.
(RQ:Austen Emma)
(RQ:Landon Ethel Churchill)
(Q)|(w)|, chapter 2|year=1905|quote=The coarseness and truth of her attack alike overwhelmed him. But her supreme insolence found him words, and he too burst forth. "Yes! and I forbid you to do it! You despise me, perhaps, and think I'm feeble. But you're mistaken. You are ''ungrateful, impertinent, and contemptible'', but I will save you in order to save Irma and our name.
c. 1908–52, W.D. Ross, transl., ''The Works of Aristotle'', Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of ''Rhetoric'', numbers|II.1389b11, by (w), (OCLC), page 636:

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
(quote-book)
The quality of being unusual or novel.
(RQ:Spenser Colin Clout)
To insult.
(quote-journal)
(quote-book)|title=Basilike|Εἰκὼν Βασιλική Eikōn Basilikē = Royal Portrait. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie, in His Solitvdes and Svfferings|year=1648|passage=bishops, who were first foully insolenced and assaulted.
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