insolence
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David Gorski, who blogs at Respectful Insolence, suggests:
From Forbes • Aug. 7, 2015
“And you. You are to address me as Madam. I expect obedience at all times. Insolence will not be tolerated, not one bit. And you will curb your tendency to talk.”
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
"Insolence, sir, is perhaps another part of your role," returns she, with cold but excessive anger.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
‘Yes, Sir, replied the Prince with fierceness, I will speak to you no more of Agnes; but Constantia and I will never suffer, that she should be any more expos’d to the Insolence of your Favourite.’
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague
And Panyasis the epic poet allots the first cup of wine to the Graces, the Hours, and Bacchus; the second to Venus, and again to Bacchus; the third to Insolence and Destruction.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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