How To Use Insolence In A Sentence

Almost Kenny could see him chirking up into insolence and the pertness of a bird. Kenny
And you may say he was: when he flogged his dvornik* (* Porter.) for insolence, and the fellow collapsed before the prescribed punishment was finished, they sent him to the local quack - and when he was better, gave him the remaining strokes. The Sky Writer
“Thou art ill-advised, thou malapert boy,” replied the steward, “to speak to me in such fashion; but I shall inform my Lady of thine insolence.” The Abbot
I'll make you suffer for this insolence.
This attitude towards his superiors would be mere insolence if it did not have political overtones.

_trissillables_, and others of _polisillables_ egally increasing and of diuers quantities, and sundry situations, as in this of our owne, made to daunt the insolence of a beautifull woman. The Arte of English Poesie
But he went among them single-handed, his bearing being a delicious composite of humility, familiarity, sang-froid, and insolence. The Son of the Wolf
As [the early 20th-century chef/philosopher Auguste] Escoffier explained more than a hundred years ago: cuisine like couture is one of these creative fields that involve exaggeration and insolence. French Master Chef Reinvents His Art
These castles afford another evidence that the fictions of romantick chivalry had for their basis the real manners of the feudal times, when every Lord of a seignory lived in his hold lawless and unaccountable, with all the licentiousness and insolence of uncontested superiority and unprincipled power. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
For this disorderly, wandering march, besides the drinking part of it, was accompanied with all the sportiveness and insolence of bacchanals, as much as if the god himself had been there to countenance and lead the procession. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
The populace resented what they called the insolence and the treachery of France and the French ambassador was pelted at Canterbury as he drove to the seacoast on his recall. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence
But insolence is of two kinds, benignant and malignant, or sustained insolence and fatuous insolence. The Fatuous Insolence of the Canadians
Go ask the very slaves of the inventor of Central American Colonization (that devout apostle of _political philanthropy_, and most zealous advocate of emancipation), go ask _his slaves_ their opinion of the merits of their master's invention, and their faces will kindle with the half ingenuous blush of conscious degradation, as they denounce his project, as the last device of insolence to degrade and oppress them. The Right of American Slavery
The paving wafted up to him through its drains the fetidity of sewers dry for lack of water; the balconies shed the dust of shaken rugs; the absurd palace appropriated, with the insolence of the new-rich, all the heaven and sun that used to belong to Ferragut. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
Antiochus was furious alike at what he termed the insolence of a handful of outlaws, and the cowardice of his picked troops, who had flaunted their banners and gone forth as if to assured victory, and had then fled like some gay-plumed bird before the swoop of the eagle. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History
* _Surquedy_ and _outrecuidance_ --- insolence and presumption. of a prince of the House of Anjou? Ivanhoe
There’s the respect that makes for so long life, for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of disprized love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? Shakespearean costume - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Impunity maketh insolence; insolence, hatred; and hatred, an endeavour to pull down all oppressing and contumelious greatness, though with the ruin of the Commonwealth. Leviathan
Burnside, at Cincinnati, have rivalled in insolence, brutality, and lawlessness any Dey of Algiers or Pacha of Asia Minor that was ever appointed by the most ruthless Sultan that ever reigned in London: Saturday, September 19, 1863
They resented this ostent of entry; the men more sullenly than the women, some of whom in their hearts could not help admiring its high-and-mighty insolence. Lady Good-for-Nothing
The surly insolence of the waiters drove him into a rage, and he flung his serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurant.
It was nothing but the insolence of the routineer that forced Gifford Pinchot out of the Forest Service. A Preface to Politics
His insolence is more than I can stand.
Emilia, guide her still forward in the Paths of Virtue, defend her from the Insolence and Wrongs of this undiscerning World; at length when we must no more converse with such Purity on Earth, lead her gently hence innocent and unreprovable to a better Place, where by an easie Transition from what she now is, she may shine forth an The Spectator, Volume 2.
The story might be interpreted in many ways -- religiously, as meaning that spiritual insolence starts all human separations; irreligiously, as meaning that the inhuman heavens grudge man his magnificent dream; or merely satirically as suggesting that all attempts to reach a higher agreement always end in more disagreement than there was before. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
The surly insolence of the waiters drove him into a rage, and he flung his serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurant.
They helped us understand what we were up against: the proud man's contumely, the insolence of office.
Page 24 the former Insolence, broke his Head, adding at the same time with an Oath, Me King here, and so a Treaty was commenced; and after satisfaction for the Affront, as well as for the liberty of watering, the Casks were replevied, and carried on board full, to the mutual satisfaction of both Parties. The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe. Comprehending a Distinct Account of His Country and Family; His Elder Brother's Voyage to France, and Reception There; the Manner in Which Himself Was Confided by His Father to the Capta
'I doat,' she cried, 'upon meeting, now and then, with insolence, for I have a little taste for it myself, which I make some conscience of not indulging unprovoked.' Camilla
This is what he terms reverence, and the confidence which is the reverse of this he terms insolence; and the latter he always deems to be a very great evil both to individuals and to states. Laws
He was not exactly free and easy, but somehow naturally insolent, which is anyway less offensive than an insolence practised before the looking-glass. A Raw Youth
Is not this enough to deserve the awful penalty of hanging, this stranger's wanton insolence, whoe'er he be? The Bacchantes
Ever since my last snatch I have been much chivied about over the President business; his answer has come, and is an evasion accompanied with schoolboy insolence, and we are going to try to answer it. Vailima Letters
Atkins took the refusal to answer as insubordination and insolence.
For sheer insolence and contempt for the electorate, her statement is hard to beat.
He seldom deigned to notice me; and, when he did, it was with a certain supercilious insolence of tone and manner, that convinced me he was no gentleman, though it was intended to have a contrary effect. Agnes Grey
Is not this enough to deserve the awful penalty of hanging, this stranger's wanton insolence, whoe'er he be? The Bacchantes
For my part, I confess my contumelious self-confidence and insolence to man, as well as blasphemy to Heaven. Anne of Geierstein
‘Insolence is not rewarded here, missy,’ she snaps, like some huge turtle.
I have long outbidden folly with folly, pride with pride, scorn with scorn, insolence with insolence, and have outlived many vanities with many more. Bleak House
Later that day he was sent an envelope full of money to compensate him for my insolence.
For the last thirty-six years poor France had been afflicted with all sorts of pernicious things: that "sonority," the tribune; that hubbub, the press; that insolence, thought; that crying abuse, liberty: he came, and for the tribune, he substituted the Napoleon the Little
What I desribe as insolence is what ERNurse puts in raw terms. Sound Politics: Die Nanny State, Die
No less than does your insolence dumfound me," she retorted, with crimson cheeks. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
The new Education Secretary has announced a crackdown on classroom backchat and persistent insolence.
And some verses made all of bisillables and others all of trisillables, and others of polisillables egally increasing and of diuers quantities, and sundry situations, as in this of our owne, made to daunt the insolence of a beautifull woman. The Arte of English Poesie
He too pronounces ex cathedra upon the characters of his contemporaries; and though he scruples not to deal out praise, even lavishly, to the lowest reptile in Grubstreet who will either flatter him in private, or mount the public rostrum as his panegyrist, he damns all the other writers of the age, with the utmost insolence and rancour — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The surely insolence of the waiters drove him into a rage, and he flung his serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurant.
Europe: and Maurice, who had supported ten years the insolence of the chagan, declared his resolution to march in person against the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
In the holes were the pouting blennies, which stared at you with their thick lips, giving their faces an expression of negroid insolence as they fluttered their fins at you. My Family and Other Animals
They helped us understand what we were up against: the proud man's contumely, the insolence of office.
The pope and the sacred college had never been dazzled by his specious professions; they were justly offended by the insolence of his conduct; a cardinal legate was sent to Italy, and after some fruitless treaty, and two personal interviews, he fulminated a bull of excommunication, in which the tribune is degraded from his office, and branded with the guilt of rebellion, sacrilege, and heresy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
And may'st thou, stranger to ostentation, and superior to insolence, with true greatness of soul shine forth conspicuous only in beneficence! Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
This misanthropic insolence has a glorious tradition in France. Monster of Marriage
Ivan IV. raved like a madman at what he called the insolence of his subjects, in complaining of their governor. The Empire of Russia
Reagan's casual, almost flirtatious insolence is instantly attractive, and very modern for a 1940 rah-rah epic.
Then those who "intrude" (thrust, that is) themselves into the fold, who by natural insolence of heart, and stout eloquence of tongue, and fearlessly perseverant self-assertion, obtain hearing and authority with the common crowd. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
his goal was the repression of insolence
Wisemans encyclical, dated from without the Flaminian Gate, in which he announced the new departure, was greeted in England by a storm of indignation, culminating in the famous and furibund letter of Lord John Russell, then Prime Minister, against the insolence of the Papal Aggression. Cardinal Manning: Part V
Thales, seeing us admiring the insolence of the man, declared he was a fellow naturally of a blockish, stupid disposition; for when he was Essays and Miscellanies
Tostig is furious at what he terms the insolence of the Northumbrians, and Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest
Lawless insolence, and wanton caprice" [Trench]. to work all uncleanness -- The Greek implies, "with a deliberate view to the working (as if it were their work or business, not a mere accidental fall into sin) of uncleanness of every kind." with greediness -- Greek, "in greediness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Easily fired at the idea of any injustice, and eager to redress the grievances of _the poor, _ Forester immediately concerted with these boys a scheme to deliver them from what he called the insolence of the dancing-master, and promised that he would compel him to go round by another street. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
Her insolence greatly displeased the judge.
And let the last word quoted here be one of Elizabeth's own, illustrative of her strangely mingled temperament of queenliness and insolence.
So he bore with his injurious usage, saying to himself, Verily insolence and evil-speaking are causes of perdition and cast into confusion, and it is said, ‘The insolent is shent and the ignorant doth repent; and whose feareth, to him safety is sent’: moderation marketh the noble and gentle manners are of gains the grandest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Morgan with an expression of insolence such as might well warrant the belief that he held feud with all grangers and made their discomfiture, dislodgment, and extermination the chief business of his life. Trail's End
The surely insolence of the waiters drove him into a rage, and he flung his serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurant.
amiable and unassuming," and though one of the first, if not the first lady at Vienna, as not at all partaking of the insolence and hauteur which is by some ascribed to the society of that capital. The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
Hast thou forgotten thine arrogance and insolence and tyranny, and thy disregarding the due of goodfellowship and thy refusing to be advised by what the poet saith? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
His voice is not tinged by irony or scurrility; it reveals instead a mixture of insolence and bewilderment. The Times Literary Supplement
Cardinal, accused him of prevarication and weakness, and threw himself at her Majesty's feet, conjuring her in the name of the King her son, not to authorise, by an example which he called fatal, the insolence of a subject who was for wresting favours from his sovereign, sword in hand. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
His insolence is more than I can stand.
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
Him Rhadamanthus beholds, full of all deformity and disproportion, which is caused by licence and luxury and insolence and incontinence, and despatches him ignominiously to his prison, and there he undergoes the punishment which he deserves. Gorgias
One evening at supper he told a story illustrating his refusal to tolerate the insolence of the lower classes.
The chief of the senate exclaimed against it as a base action, and excited one another to repress the boldness and insolence of the soldiers, which would erelong become altogether ungovernable and violent, were they now permitted to deprive Aemilius of his triumph. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
The fellow's insolence, the honorifics bestowed on Jisuké, the vile terms heaped on himself, showed the secure ground on which Jisuké stood in his full knowledge of events. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2
He was annoyed at the man's insolence but realised he must have appeared a coxcomb in Mr. Howitt's eyes.
Was it not as high time, then, to take this dangerous Weapon of mimical Insolence and Defamation out of the Hands of a mad Poet, as to wrest the Knife from the lifted Hand of a Murderer? An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I
Perhaps it was a case of German insolence, a deliberate offense to Roman dignity.
The surely insolence of the waiters drove him into a rage, and he flung his serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurant.
The condition of peasant children, their sorrows and joys, their sports and bickerings -- the coarse insolence of the richer, the timid dispiritment of the needy, all stood in lively remembrance before his fancy, which liked to go back into that first and only period of his freedom, though, perhaps, also of his beggarhood. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828
Her insolence greatly displeased the judge.
insufferable insolence
When the captain returned, he became so much enraged by her representations, that he not only reprimanded the youngster severely for what he termed his insolence, but so far forgot himself as to give him a blow. The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
It was an act of the highest insolence towards government, such as mildness itself cannot overlook or forgive. Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
I was out of patience with his insolence.
The writing surface in front of her is gouged from thirty years of insolence and boredom at the hands of the hostile day students.
Where do they get the authority and encouragement to practise their childish, schoolyard insolence and contempt of our leaders?
How can you suffer such insolence?
They no longer protect competitive wages and fair working environments - they inflate wages and protect the insolence and stupidity of their members.
You don't remember getting Daniel Moran -- a prisoner serving a long sentence there -- seven days 'solitary on bread and water for what you called disobedience of orders and insolence?' Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
He contrasts this with "destructively arrogant," which he defines as an attitude that lacks empathy and reeks of insolence and vanity. Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: I Don't Think Physicians Are as Arrogant as You Do
It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings.
Whether or not you're going to 'suffer' what you call my insolence, I don't know, and I don't much care. The Bronze Bell

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