Insolence

Noun

 * 1) Arrogant conduct; insulting, bold behaviour or attitude.
 * 2) * 5th century BCE, Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric, II.1389b11,
 * Wit is well-bred insolence.

Adjectives for Insolence
haughty; increasing; disobedient; smiling; beefy; studied; ferocious; displeasing; gigantic; personal; insane; wanton; fiat-faced; mutinous; puffed.

Thesaurus
arrogance, assumption, audacity, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brass, brassiness, bravado, brazen boldness, brazenness, bumptiousness, callousness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, cockiness, contempt, contemptuousness, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, despite, discourtesy, disdain, disesteem, dishonor, disparagement, disregard, disrespect, disrespectfulness, gall, hardihood, hardness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, heroics, hubris, impenitence, impenitentness, impertinence, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, induration, injudiciousness, irrepentance, irreverence, lack of respect, nonrepentance, obduracy, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, rashness, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, seared conscience, temerariousness, temerity, unabjectness, unchariness, uncontriteness, unwariness

Etymology
insolentia

Translations

 * Bosnian: drskost
 * Finnish: röyhkeys, julkeus
 * Portuguese: insolência


 * Russian: надменность, наглость , нахальство
 * Slovene: predrznost, nesramnost, nadutost

Derived terms

 * insolency

Anagrams

 * selenonic