Meaning of procacious | Babel Free

Definitions

Bold, forward, insolent.

Examples

“Another piece of Vain-glory to be Denied, is in The Reputation of strength and valour. The witless part of men, especially in their procacious humours, do use⟳ to be carried away with this […]”

“1882, John Brown, “Mr. Syme” in Horæ Subsecivæ, New Edition, First Series, Edinburgh: David Douglas, p. 370, In his little room in the Surgical Hospital—once the High School […] his house-surgeons and clerks and dressers—now all over the world, working out his principles and practice—will well remember⟳ how delightful he was, standing with his back to the fire, making wise jokes […] now abating a procacious youth, now heartening a shy homely one […]”

“Philosophy first became public when it proposed to teach⟳ character to this strapping lout with a procacious cock, the superfluous energy of a horse, and the restless attention of a child, […]”

“The prospect of being ruled by their chattering brown compatriots, however, so appalled the politicians of West Karnistan—and in particular the mercurial Zaleel Shah Jhoota, a procacious autocrat who had managed to convince⟳ a majority of West Karnistani voters that he was really a precocious socialist—that they persuaded Jarasandha Khan to declare⟳ the election results null and void, declare⟳ martial law in the East and lock⟳ up all the Gelabin politicians the Karnistani Army could lay⟳ their hands and batons on.”

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