effrontery

Definitions

1. Insolent and shameless audacity.
   uncountable
2. An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“We even had the effrontery to suggest⟳ that he should leave⟳ the country.”

“Let⟳ not the Englishman in Scotland believe⟳ that the undoffed hat, the curt reply⟳, the apparent assumption of equality, all spring⟳ from deliberate effrontery, and are wholly beyond the reach⟳ of southern influence⟳.”

“Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.”

“All was going as planned until the bag hit a snag and failed to surround⟳ the entire nest. This effrontery was too much. The wasps exploded off the nest at me.”

CEFR level