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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for insolence:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
insolence
    n 1: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take
         liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence,
         impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness]
    2: an offensive disrespectful impudent act
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Insolence \In"so*lence\, n. [F. insolence, L. insolentia. See
   Insolent.]
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   1. The quality of being unusual or novel. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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   2. The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness
      manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of
      others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.
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            Flown with insolence and wine.        --Milton.
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   3. Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
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            Loaded with fetters and insolences from the
            soldiers.                             --Fuller.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Insolence \In"so*lence\, v. t.
   To insult. [Obs.] --Eikon Basilike.
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