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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abusive, arrogant, assuming, atrocious, audacious, aweless, backhand, backhanded, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, callous, calumnious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, cocky, cold, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, crude, daring, defiant, defying, degrading, derisive, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, familiar, forward, fresh, greatly daring, hard, hardened, haughty, high-and-mighty, hubristic, humiliating, impenitent, imperative, impertinent, impolite, improvident, imprudent, impudent, inaffable, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insubordinate, insulting, irreverent, left-handed, lofty, magisterial, obdurate, obtrusive, offensive, outrageous, overbearing, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, overpresumptuous, oversure, overweening, peremptory, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, rash, regardless of consequences, ridiculing, rude, saucy, scurrile, scurrilous, self-appointed, self-elect, supercilious, superior, temerarious, unabject, unaccommodating, unchary, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncontrite, uncourteous, uncourtly, ungallant, ungracious, unmelted, unpolite, unrepentant, unrepenting, unsoftened, unspeakable, untouched, unwary, uppish, uppity, wise, would-be
Dictionary Results for insolent:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
insolent
    adj 1: marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious
           question"; "the student was kept in for impudent
           behavior" [syn: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed,
           flip]
    2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick
       to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious
       display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times;
       "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with
       its quick material successes and insolent belief in the
       boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn:
       audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced,
       brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Insolent \In"so*lent\, a. [F. insolent, L. insolens, -entis,
   pref. in- not + solens accustomed, p. pr. of solere to be
   accustomed.]
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   1. Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange;
      unusual. [Obs.]
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            If one chance to derive any word from the Latin
            which is insolent to their ears . . . they forthwith
            make a jest at it.                    --Pettie.
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            If any should accuse me of being new or insolent.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or
      language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or
      disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent
      servant. "A paltry, insolent fellow." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all
            other folks as in regard of his value, of his
            cunning, of his speaking, and of his bearing.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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            Can you not see? or will ye not observe . . .
            How insolent of late he is become,
            How proud, how peremptory?            --Shak.
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   3. Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting;
      as, insolent words or behavior.
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            Their insolent triumph excited . . . indignation.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   Syn: Overbearing; insulting; abusive; offensive; saucy;
        impudent; audacious; pert; impertinent; rude;
        reproachful; opprobrious.

   Usage: Insolent, Insulting. Insolent, in its primitive
          sense, simply denoted unusual; and to act insolently
          was to act in violation of the established rules of
          social intercourse. He who did this was insolent; and
          thus the word became one of the most offensive in our
          language, indicating gross disregard for the feelings
          of others. Insulting denotes a personal attack, either
          in words or actions, indicative either of scorn or
          triumph. Compare Impertinent, Affront,
          Impudence.
          [1913 Webster]

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