How To Use Effrontery In A Sentence
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Obviously, I'm not Catholic, but I think it takes a lot of effrontery for the media to try to dictate the doctrine for Catholics.
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We're going to laugh at your presumption and ego and effrontery and audacity.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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he had the effrontery to question my honesty
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In her presence and before the whole household he repeated his false story, and clung to it with a bitter effrontery that we may well call diabolic, remembering how the nervous terror of punishment and exposure sinks the angel in man.
Rousseau
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The amaroidal or perhaps hemorrhoidal? lout actually thinks he’s being funny with this smug piece that pillories Henry Petroski for having the effrontery to dwell at length upon the history of the toothpick.
Joe Queenan: Incurious Harbinger of Death : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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The version I drove costs a simply staggering £30,900 and then they have the bare-faced effrontery to whack on another £350 for metallic paint.
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Maybe effrontery would dismiss him as too negligible to pursue.
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One always feels like crying this to those who, thinking to reach the goal of poise, fall into excess and develop effrontery and exaggeratedness.
Poise: How to Attain It
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It was the sheer effrontery, the excessive assurance of them which got under my skin.
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` ` Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald, '' said Wamba with his usual effrontery; ` ` the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew. ''
Ivanhoe
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His Zapa isn't a pure young man who becomes corrupted, nor is he a diehard crook who adores the effrontery of becoming a policeman.
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The man walked off in dudgeon, and Mr. Westwyn, losing his anger in his astonishment at this effrontery, said, 'And pray, Mr. Lynmere, what do you pretend to know of Stilton cheese? do they make it at Leipsic? did you ever so much as taste it in your life?'
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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But woe betide the people when they have the effrontery to take a stand on higher principles.
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What worries me is the sheer effrontery, the level of twistedness implicit in what he is doing.
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He was silent all through the meal and then had the effrontery to complain that I looked bored!
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As for this ‘cross party reform group’, I can think of nothing less democratic or more dangerous; and what effrontery to ask us to support them.
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As each day brings yet another piece of evidence to demonstrate their incompetence, people sit there open-mouthed that they have the effrontery to claim they are ‘dealing’ with whatever the latest foul-up is, that yet another ‘review’ is to take place (everyone now understands that to mean ‘kick into the long grass’), that lessons will be learnt and that such and such a nincompoop is a fit and proper person to clear up the mess he or she has created.
McBlackadder The Dancing Bear
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For his effrontery he was rewarded with the Home Ministry!
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I know he doesn't hear that one much because he managed to communicate stunned, silent disapproval at my effrontery over the telephone.
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With brazen effrontery, however, they painted themselves as martyrs for freedom.
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“Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald,” said Wamba with his usual effrontery; “the swineherd will be a fit usher to the
Ivanhoe
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For effrontery of possessiveness is there anything that can exceed the nest-making, planet-populating, female, human woman?
CHAPTER XV
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Various VIPs were attracted by their effrontery.
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One could only gasp at the sheer effrontery of the man.
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This is a much more frequent cause than one might think of the exhibition of an effrontery which is apparently deliberate and intentional.
Poise: How to Attain It
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The music was what counted but the cockiness, the combination of arrogance and provocation, the sheer effrontery was thrilling to witness.
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Meanwhile, the critics, as opposed to scandalmongers, began to weigh in, taking the work in the show to task, not for its moral effrontery but for its lack of compelling interest.
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Even the French, accustomed to such effrontery from their leaders, especially their current one, could only gasp in disbelief, or at least shrug their shoulders in resignation.
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With breathtaking effrontery, Cameron finally segues seamlessly into a little sci-fi fantasy showing his scientists discovering an alien city on another planet complete with bug-eyed aliens.
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Their latest topic is the "effrontery" of ... digg
Reese Schonfeld: Jon Stewart Deserves a News Emmy
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Armond saw the same "effrontery" found in British punk, and the provocative words and song titles heard from The Smiths.
Black Market Kidneys » PE Panel Write-Up
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It is a slender affluent of the Cconi, to be called a rivulet in any country but South America, but here named a river with the same proud effrontery which designates as a _city_ any collection of
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
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They call loudly for the Knights, who enter as the Chorus to assist them against Cleon, encouraging the sausage-seller to show the brazen effrontery which is the mob-orator's sole protection, and to prove that a decent upbringing is meaningless.
Authors of Greece
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Proposing the motion, he said ‘Such a practice is a petty and heartless effrontery to the most vulnerable and deserving section of our society.’
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She returned to court nevertheless, and constantly denying her marriage, fought it out with the effrontery which is so easily forgiven, in fashionable life, to youth, wit, and beauty.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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He said: ‘The sheer effrontery of Kennet in failing to consult even the local members beggars belief.’
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But O'Duffy's admiration for the sheer effrontery of the man persisted, and he arranged for another trial to be held in conjunction with the Irish championships.
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Another such move is to ex-territorialize the cumbersome native: he must be an émigré, an exile; as a matter of fact, I never moved to England, which I have the effrontery to merely visit.
A Cup of Coffee
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He had the effrontery to suggest that she enjoyed being unhappy.
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But the police and a jingoistic public ensure that such effrontery is suitably decried and the witnesses end up regretting having spoken the truth.
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He'd come over to confront Stan and Tiny and to tell them exactly what he thought of their effrontery, but held back the accusation for want of proof.
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Then, at a time like this our councillors have the mindless effrontery to propose a 16 per cent tax increase.
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Their latest topic is the "effrontery" of Jon Stewart who, by interviewing Jim Cramer, invaded their territory.
Reese Schonfeld: Jon Stewart Deserves a News Emmy
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He was silent all through the meal and then had the effrontery to complain that I looked bored!
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Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald," said Wamba with his usual effrontery; "the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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With breathtaking effrontery, Cameron finally segues seamlessly into a little sci-fi fantasy showing his scientists discovering an alien city on another planet complete with bug-eyed aliens.
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Yet there she was, and moving with a leisureliness that must be described as effrontery!
The Old Wives' Tale
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This is a despicable fraud . Just imagine that he has the effrontery to say it.
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Maybe effrontery would dismiss him as too negligible to pursue.
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Christian Sabbath, nor "approves the creed" of any orthodox denomination, to be lecturing a numerous body of Clergymen, as to what they ought or ought not to do, it is the culmination of all that is called effrontery!
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
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He was so amazed at their effrontery that he stutters in confusion.
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On the whole, however, he carries the reader with him by sheer effrontery.
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He might even pray earnestly to Saint Winifred to protect him, he had the innocent effrontery for it.
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She talked of this little occurrence all the time of her 'coucher'; though she only complained that one of Monsieur's guards should have had the effrontery to speak to her.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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It's most annoying that you claim to be a friend of his, because I'd like to toast you for your infernal effrontery in bringing that damned amulet here.
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A lot of it's just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness.
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I suggest a national horn-blowing day on Friday blasted against all those brass-necks who have the effrontery to queue-jump so blatantly and outrageously.
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This is a despicable fraud . Just imagine that he has the effrontery to say it.
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So, I find I can't agree that his presence is an "effrontery," although I wholeheartedly agree that it is politically incongruous.
Balkinization
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A lot of it is just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness.
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He then committed several acts of brazen effrontery.
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He was silent all through the meal and then had the effrontery to complain that I looked bored!
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Among gypsy women skill in begging implies the possession of every talent which they most esteem, such as artfulness, cool effrontery, and the power of moving pity or provoking generosity by pique or humor.
The Gypsies
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The immediate cause of the fracas was the appearance of sundry articles, copied from the _New York Times_, referring to the "Lola Montez-like insolence, bare-faced hypocrisy, and effrontery of Queen Christina of Spain.
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
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And he, embarrassed and shaken for the moment by this sudden visitation, was still heartened and hardened into a kind of effrontery and gallantry such as he had not felt as yet in regard to her.
An American Tragedy
