How To Use Insolent In A Sentence
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His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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Indifferent, insolent, squally weather put a bit of a damper on the festive and cultural activities over the bank holiday weekend.
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Walton, imagining that his discomposure was the consequence of guilty fear, called upon him to remember the duties which he owed to England, the benefits which he had received from himself, and the probable consequence of taking part in a pert boy's insolent defiance of the power of the governor of the province.
Waverley Novels — Volume 12
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Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes.
In Praise of Folly
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The most careless and trivial movements were capable of transmitting the rudest and most insolent messages.
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MIT Press The bombing for the sake of "frightfulness" (an imitation of the Germans) and the insolent demand for unconditional surrender, and the blind policy with Russia were all blunders as well as wrongs, and have produced a stale-mate where materially there was a clear victory.
'The Letters of George Santayana'
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Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers.
The Captive
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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
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There - munching on a pot plant, stuffing his insolent rabbity face.
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But in the Sixties, as some of us know, wearing modish flat shoes could be as much an act of insolent opposition as a fashion statement.
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If somebody, early some morning while it was still dark, awoke to ask the question: "Are you come to harry and spulzie my ha '?" it would most likely be Red Murdo who gave an insolent answer.
The Black Colonel
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The pride of the poor people is infinitely great, and exceeded by nothing but their poverty, in some parts, which adds to that which I call their misery; and I must needs think the savages of America live much more happy than the poorer sort of these, because as they have nothing, so they desire nothing; whereas these are proud and insolent and in the main are in many parts mere beggars and drudges.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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Planters frequently used the whip on bondsmen whom they deemed insolent or guilty of committing crimes.
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He muttered, looking insolently at the flooding shelter as the torrential waters rose.
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Rampant fanaticism and tawdry, insolent antics only hurt the feminist cause.
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She called her insolent, and assurance; and said, Begone, bold woman as thou art! — but come hither.
Pamela
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John reproves what he perceives as the author's insolent comments and suggests bringing his angry feelings to God in prayer.
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insolently injurious" includes, with the idea of injuring others, that of insolent "uppishness" [Donaldson] in relation to one's self.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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At these insolent words her anger rose.
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Tartars be most insolent, and they scorne and set nought by all other noble and ignoble persons whatsoeuer.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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It had now a united people, and unexhausted treasury, enlarged military resources and a confidence more insolent than eyer.
The Rival Administrations: Richmond and Washington in December, 1863.
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Robert Melville, who appeared to have been using some soothing language — “No! no! no! I tell thee, no! I will place a petard against the door rather than be baulked by a profligate woman, and bearded by an insolent footboy.”
The Abbot
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Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity.
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Egypt another paradise, now barbarous and desert, and almost waste, by the despotical government of an imperious Turk, intolerabili servitutis jugo premitur ([483] one saith) not only fire and water, goods or lands, sed ipse spiritus ab insolentissimi victoris pendet nutu, such is their slavery, their lives and souls depend upon his insolent will and command.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The union of heaven and earth described there produces a mighty all-conquering insolent race of godlike people.
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The pleasure he takes in humbling the proud and exalting those of low degree (v. 6): The Lord lifts up the meek, who abase themselves before him, and whom men trample on; but the wicked, who conduct themselves insolently towards God and scornfully towards all mankind, who lift up themselves in pride and folly, he casteth down to the ground, sometimes by very humbling providences in this world, at furthest in the day when their faces shall be filled with everlasting shame.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Only very insolent children can breach such a contract.
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At these insolent words her anger rose.
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Eftir the messis wer done with maist solempnitie and reverence, comperit afore him mony young and insolent baronis of Scotland, richt desirus to haif sum plesur and solace, be chace of hundis in the said forest.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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There was a slightly insolent tone to his voice, as if he wasn't used to actually being ordered around.
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When the comitia were abolished at Rome, the Prætorian guards took their place: insolent, greedy, barbarous, and idle soldiers were the republic.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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It was necessary to explain things at great length, diffusedly and tiresomely, to the superintendent, a coarse and insolent man, who bore himself to all the tenants in the house as toward a conquered city; and feared only the students slightly, because they gave him a severe rebuff at times.
Yama: the pit
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Along with being proud and insolent and stubborn, and a whole load of other things.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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There was a certain insolent quality in her beauty, as if it flaunted itself somewhat too defiantly in the beholder's eye.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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The officer stamped his boot. "Don't be insolent with me, mademoiselle.".
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With its sumptuous bouquet of sunny neroli, ripe, nectarous rose and jasmine and sweet, powdery violet and iris, and a languid, expansive feel of the composition, Baghari stays true to the grand and insolent spirit of the rest of the Piguet collection.
Archive 2007-08-01
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No sooner did Mr. Clay resume his seat than Mr. Cuthbert sprang to his feet, and in an insolent tone alluded to what he called the theatrical manner of the speaker.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
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Has any country ever had a more arrogant, insolent, contemptuous leader than we have?
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The man looked at her as if the question were self-evidently absurd as well as insolent.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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He had a manner of adoring the handsome, insolent queen of his affections (I will explain in a moment why I call her insolent); indeed, he looked up to her literally as well as sentimentally; for she was the least bit the taller of the two.
Georgina's Reasons
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He was accused then, as he often is now, of being excessive, even hysterical, in his account of the Revolution: a ferocious dissoluteness in manners, an insolent irreligion in opinions and practices, … laws overturned, tribunals subverted, industry without vigor, commerce expiring … a church pillaged … civil and military anarchy … national bankruptcy.
Reflections on Burke
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Playing Lucy Collins, the troubled daughter of the neighbourhood's petit bourgeois family, she constantly bristled with an insolent ennui and a mild subversiveness.
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This shows how Kate has a mistaken identity because she appears rude and insolent.
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'These common people are most insolent,' said Bell, with an affectation of fine ladyism.
The Bishop's Secret
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She bristled at his insolent remarks
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There is no privilege here, no escape from the insolent booth attendants, the ceaseless demands of the homeless, and the pungent overcrowding.
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The very stylish decor and layout could unfortunately not make up for the very expensive bar prices and the rude and insolent staff.
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One should not be arrogant or insolent but rather be kind, considerate and courteous towards them.
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It was indeed the opinion of all the others, when they consulted about the execution of their design, that it was necessary to cut off Antony with Caesar, looking upon him as an insolent man, an affecter of monarchy, and one that, by his familiar intercourse, had gained a powerful interest with the soldiers.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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He swore every oath imaginable at her, insolently ordering her to be off with her child, and find lodgings with the villain to whom she had prostituted herself, or else he would soon pitch her and her little bratling into the Thames.
The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney.
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They whined insolently, and in maudlin tones begged me for pennies, and worse.
A VISION OF THE NIGHT
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The tribune of the plebs was a clever man and not a bad speaker; he had now got amongst his opponents a man of insolent temper and hot tongue, whom he could irritate and provoke into saying things which would bring odium not only upon himself, but upon his cause and upon the whole of his order.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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Belfield, with great indignation, demanded what he meant by the term impertinent fellow; and Sir Robert yet more insolently repeated it:
Cecilia
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The banking powers are more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.
Pragmatic Witness
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At the dawn of an October day in 1827 a young fellow about sixteen years of age, whose clothing proclaimed what modern phraseology so insolently calls a proletary, was standing in a small square of Lower
The Celibates
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Ours must be that first painful step of open and courageous defiance against an arrogant and insolent tyranny.
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Gossips themselves are classified with people who are slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful.
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A few dozen insolent soldiers were watching every move he made today and he had gotten painful lessons earlier that morning.
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He was wearing his cap off-center and set well back on his head at an insolent tilt,.
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Why does she treat me like I am a spoilt child who is rude and insolent even when I am quite clearly not?
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I keep this in mind when I tell the hotel people how insolent and useless and above all stupid they are for giving me such a stupid and smelly room.
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The sector monitor issued the customary challenge; the corvette, disdaining response other than to break out a long serpent-tongue banderole, landed with insolent carelessness on the roof of the Grand Palace.
The Languages of Pao
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Mrs. Jervis, and Jonathan too, joined in a body, in a bold appeal to Lady Davers, which has given her the insolent handle she has taken to intermeddle in my affairs, I could easily have forgiven all the rest of their conduct; though they have given their tongues no little license about me: But I could have forgiven them, because
Pamela
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The North has only to be patient, and you, sir, can still afford to be insolent to the Government, and asperous, as ever, to all vulgar inquisitors.
The Southern Spy. Letters on the Policy and Inauguration of the Lincoln War. Written Anonymously in Washington and Elsewhere.
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I did this deliberately because I have two stepdaughters who treat me in a very insolent manner and will inherit from their mother.
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Needless to say the female customer at the bar was shocked by the insolent talking beast.
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Walton, imagining that his discomposure was the consequence of guilty fear, called upon him to remember the duties which he owed to England, the benefits which he had received from himself, and the probable consequence of taking part in a pert boy’s insolent defiance of the power of the governor of the province.
Castle Dangerous
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-- She called her insolent, and assurance; and said, Begone, bold woman as thou art!
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
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An insolent stranger makes an unexpected appearance in Tara's house claiming to be her illegitimate nephew (the bastard son of Padma).
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He that, being high in estate is proud in heart, whose spirit is elevated with his condition, so that he becomes insolent in his conduct towards God and man, let him know that though he admires himself, and others caress him, yet he is an abomination to the Lord.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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You're already bad as the rest of these insolent little rips.
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Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father's land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes.
The Praise of Folly
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I did this deliberately because I have two stepdaughters who treat me in a very insolent manner and will inherit from their mother.
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At Fulvia, insolentiae Curii causa cognita, tale periculum rei publicae haud occultum habuit, sed sublato auctore [131] de Catilinae conjuratione quae quoque modo audierat compluribus narravit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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Now we'll see how well you hide, you insolent little pismire!
The Golden Torc
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He went out of his way to be just as impolite and insolent as he could be.
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Beria was more treacherous, more practiced in perfidy and cunning, more insolent and single-minded, than my father.
Twenty Letters to a Father
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He grinned insolently at the unheeding boy-leader.
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Impudenter so masculorum aspectibus exponunt, insolenter comas jactantes, trahunt tunicas pedibus collidentes, oculoque petulanti, risu effuso, ad tripudium insanientes, omnem adolescentum intemperantiam in se provocantes, inque in templis memoriae martyrum consecratis; pomoerium civitatis officinam fecerunt impudentiae.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Although she didn't actually say anything offensive, her expression was sulky, insolent, and hostile.
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he had replied insolently to his superiors
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The disembodied voice sounded just like Riona, bold and insolent.
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The Earl of Argyle’s service, in conducting to the surrender of the insolent and wicked race and name of MacGregor, notorious common malefactors, and in the inbringing of MacGregor, with a great many of the leading men of the clan, worthily executed to death for their offences, is thankfully acknowledged by an Act of Parliament, 1607, chap. 16, and rewarded with a grant of twenty chalders of victual out of the lands of
Rob Roy
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It is rarely that we can point to an opposition between faultful, because insolent, ignorance, and virtuous, because gracious, knowledge, so direct, and in so parallel elements, as in this instance.
Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
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The pearls -- which she always wore -- some coral ornaments, and a handful of amber beads were her only dower, but her caprices were the insolent and extravagant caprices of a queen.
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
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Among all our reckless doings the most daring is this insolent advertising to the powers of the world that we have unparalleled national resources and no army to protect them.
The Fatuous Insolence of the Canadians
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I wish, that it does not demonstrate too evidently, that, with some of the sex, insolent controul is a more efficacious subduer than kindness or concession.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Li Faa pursed her insolent, unpainted lips into the form of a half-opened rosebud, and replied:
THE TEARS OF AH KIM
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Well, he had shown the insolent fellow the door.
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He tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness.
A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
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“And that is called nihilism,” Bazarov repeated again, this time in a particularly insolent tone.
Fathers and Sons
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Has any country ever had a more arrogant, insolent, contemptuous leader than we have?
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the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress
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Dozens of early explorers met their deaths down there, baffled by the mazy, alien geography, plagued by hunger, thirst and insolent kangaroos.
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He went out of his way to be just as impolite and insolent as he could be.
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There was an interview with some CEO on TV insolently summing-up the secrets of success "Our success is due to those personnel happily working for the enterprise day and night, day after day.
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Page 133 liess ich sie unter guter Wacht hinein, so nun dieser Brice meiner procedur sich beschwärt, gabe zur Antwort mir wäre sein schöner Dessin wohl bekannt, würde aber an gebührendem Ohrt sein unverschandtes und verwegenes procedieren wüssen anzubringen, ob das die Manier gegen seine Vorgesetzten so zu Meutinieren ich als Statthalter des Ober Hauses, Landesgraf und Comandant dieses District wäre im rechten ihne gefangen senden und wäre auch geschächen37 so ich diesers falschen desieren Gesellen mit kurzem Bescheid und starker Betreuwung wider hinaus sich für das nächste parlament cedieren. -- was weiters für Insolentien auf seiten dieses Cap: und abtrünnigen Pfälzern gegen mich und die meinigen verübt, zu weitläufig und verdriesslich habe von kürze wegen für nichts mehr melden wollen, doch noch etwas wenix im fürgang.
Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languag
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Lord Alfred Douglas' boldness gave Oscar outrecuidance, an insolent arrogance: artist-like he tried to outdo his model in aristocratic disdain.
Oscar Wilde
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History has a way of ignoring such insolent details, of weaving them seamlessly into its larger narrative fabric.
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She called the gamin: he was a shrewd monkey-faced fellow, with an insolent crafty eye.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
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But who would really stand up for that poor, insolent tweedle brain?
Stanton Peele: Free Lindsay Lohan?
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I wonder if you know how insolent is your tone, Belmanoir?" asked Fortescue steadily.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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Eftir the messis wer done with maist solempnitie and reverence, comperit afore him mony young and insolent baronis of Scotland, richt desirus to haif sum plesur and solace, be chace of hundis in the said forest.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Insolent words uttered in the arrogant consciousness of power were always heard in heaven and always punished.
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It can only suffer economic loss which cannot be aggravated by the insulting or insolent behaviour of the defendant.
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9 Whenever he saw them unseasonably and insolently elated, he would with a word reduce them to alarm; on the other hand, if they fell victims to a panic, he could at once restore them to confidence.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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Rothschild : ( dying ) Insolent whelp ! Think you've outwitted me?
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One should not be arrogant or insolent but rather be kind, considerate and courteous towards them.
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The man looked at her as if the question were self-evidently absurd as well as insolent.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Chrysostom, good men do not always find grace and favour, lest they should be puffed up with turgent titles, grow insolent and proud.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Swift omitted no opportunity of humbling his pride; but, as he was as ignorant as insolent, he was obliged to accommodate the coarseness of the lash to the callosity of the back.
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
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No action could be colder, haughtier, more insolent in its air of supremacy and disrespect, but she had struggled against even that concession ineffectually, and it was wrested from her.
Dombey and Son
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Suddenly the manager's boy put his insolent black head in the doorway, and said in a tone of scath - ing contempt:
Heart of Darkness
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They are insolent, and take a pleasure in magnifying themselves.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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I will punish her, and make an example of that insolent man, who has presumed to fail in respell to me.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete
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When an actor who looks like he or she is still in middle school behaves like a spoiled, insolent brat, it's nothing but par for the course.
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But Dennis Culhane's insolent observation that outreach workers and emergency-shelter managers are "threatened ideologically and financially" by the Administration's shift in emphasis is loaded with bitter irony.
When George Meets John
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He was doubtless much amused at the idea of toying with this small, insolent vessel.
Talents, Incorporated
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That the glory of their house, from very small beginnings, is increased greatly, which naturally makes men haughty, insolent, and imperious, Ps.v. 16.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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He thereby manifested what can only be considered an insolent disregard of this Court's adjudgments.
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Some think this psalm was penned upon occasion of some great distress and trouble that the church of God was in, when the enemies were in insolent and threatening, in which case the church does not so much pour out her complaint to God as place her confidence in God, and triumph in doing so; and with such a holy triumph we ought to sing this psalm.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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At the suggestion of my friend, the Rev.Mr. Hunt, I have restored the original readings, as in truer consonancy with the vainglorious, insolent, and swaggering ballad spirit.
Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
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Proud men are frequently most proud, and insolent, and haughty, just before their destruction, so that it is a certain presage that they are upon the brink of it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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After this they conversed in a whisper too low for me to hear, but I could distinguish the word insolent as if meant to me; and finding I could have no chance of influencing his mind at this time, I retired to my chamber, waiting for the summons of the breakfast-bell, and have written thus far.
The Old Woman
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He caulked the chasms with philosophic oakum, he 'payed' them with dialectic pitch, he sheathed them with copper and brass by means of audacious dogmatism and insolent quibbles, until the enemy seemed to have been silenced, and the vessel righted so far as to float.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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No more, ever, of that strange suspicion -- 'insolent' -- oh, what a word!
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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Take the leprosy out of your flesh, before you speak of purifying stone walls — abate your insolent license, which leads but to idle vanity and sinful excess; and know, that what you now practise, is one of the profane and unseemly sports introduced by the priests of Rome themselves, to mislead and to brutify the souls which fell into their net.”
The Abbot
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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
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Now, by Heaven, crookback!" he cried, and made a threatening gesture against Æsop, who eyed him insolently with a mocking smile.
The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
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Along with being proud and insolent and stubborn, and a whole load of other things.
AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
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Zorzi, called the Ballarin, although he has removed from the furnace of the said Angelo the glass which was to be kept hot, does insolently and defiantly refuse to put out the fire in the said furnace, and forces the boys to make the fire all night, to the great injury of their health, because the canicular days are approaching.
Marietta A Maid of Venice
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They seized on these emperors of the senate, for such they called them with malicious contempt, stripped them of their garments, and dragged them in insolent triumph through the streets of Rome, with the design of inflicting a slow and cruel death on these unfortunate princes.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Epaminondas, therefore, the next day after his Leuctrian victory, [1967] came abroad all squalid and submiss, and gave no other reason to his friends of so doing, than that he perceived himself the day before, by reason of his good fortune, to be too insolent, overmuch joyed.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Halsey was standing in the path, hands in the pockets of the army fatigue jacket he was wearing, looking amused and insolent.
THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
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No circumstances of the Norman Conquest more forcibly illustrate the humiliation of the conquered people, than the measures by which the invaders imposed their language on the public courts of the country, and endeavored to make it permanently usurp the place of the mother-tongue of the despised multitude; and no fact more signally displays our conservative temper than the general reluctance of English society to relinquish the use of the French words and phrases which still tincture the language of parliament, and the procedures of Westminster Hall, recalling to our minds the insolent domination of a few powerful families who occupied our country by force, and ruled our forefathers with vigorous injustice.
A Book About Lawyers
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Halsey was standing in the path, hands in the pockets of the army fatigue jacket he was wearing, looking amused and insolent.
THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
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Should no purchase of the patent in question be made by the directory of the Morris and Essex Railroad, however, PUNCHINELLO will then meet contingencies by condensing the machine, reducing it so much in size that a commuter may easily carry one in his waistcoat pocket, to be ready, when necessary, for extracting an insolent conductor out of his boots; or, should the occasion arise, for the immediate evulsion from office of the autocratic President of the concern, himself.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870
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Insolent words uttered in the arrogant consciousness of power were always heard in heaven and always punished.
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And here was this callow, insolent youth, miming to an absurdly ‘cleaned up’ version of the track which merely involved the surgical removal of the rude words in question.
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Beware of an insolent person who is destructive and selfish.
