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insolent
What does insolent mean?
insolent (adjective): marked by casual disrespect.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use insolent in a sentence?
- Why are you so insolent? (Tatoeba sentence #6743189 by AlanF_US, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce insolent?
/ˈɪnsələnt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does insolent come from?
From Middle English, from Old French.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to insolent
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “insolent” mean?
cloudy, indistinct, obscure
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unpleasantly cool and humid
Not quite: that's what dank means.
marked by casual disrespect
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very large; of vast measure
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