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Main Entry:	cheek [cheek] Show IPA/tʃik/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	side of human face
Synonyms:	chop*, choppers, gill, jowl

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	arrogance
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	exaggerated self-opinion
Synonyms:	airs, aloofness, audacity, bluster, braggadocio, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, conceit, conceitedness, contemptuousness, crust, disdain, disdainfulness, ego, egotism, gall, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, hubris, imperiousness, insolence, loftiness, nerve, ostentation, overbearance, pomposity, pompousness, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, pride, priggishness, scornfulness, self-importance, self-love, smugness, superciliousness, swagger, vanity
Antonyms:	humility, meekness, servility

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	audacity
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	arrogance, presumptuousness
Synonyms:	assurance, audaciousness, brass, cheek, chutzpah, cockiness, crust, defiance, disrespectfulness, effrontery, forwardness, gall, guts, gutsiness, hardiness, impertinence, impudence, insolence, moxie, nerve, rudeness, shamelessness, spunk, stuff*, temerity
Antonyms:	gentility, humility, meekness, modesty, timidity, yielding

* = informal/non-formal usage

Example Sentences

He then did the same thing on her other cheek and likewise ran four threads on either side of her neck.

Cheek used federal stimulus money to hire several front-line fund raisers to place in different cities.

It even had the cheek to propose increasing its dividend.

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He then did the same thing on her other cheek and likewise ran four threads on either side of her neck.

Cheek used federal stimulus money to hire several front-line fund raisers to place in different cities.

It even had the cheek to propose increasing its dividend.

Brownish body with black head, long black neck, conspicuous white cheek patch.

The doctors placed her into a brain scanner, and asked her to scratch her cheek with her phantom limb.

From behind her, a beefy brute with a scar on his cheek clamps a meaty hand over her mouth.

The book is written with tongue firmly planted in cheek and illustrated nicely.

Sherrill, the former in the hand and the latter in the cheek and chin.

Nice tongue in cheek work paievoli haven't seen anyone besides myself plant an intelligent red herring in a thread in a while.

The anecdotes you told of a senior prince slapping the cheek of a prominent businessman for.

I've collected both blood specimens and cheek swabs.

He does not know for sure but suspects that the duct cells need to be cheek by jowl with the islets to receive chemical feedback.

He escaped with brutal talon marks on his cheek and one of the earliest recorded glimpses of a spotted owl nest.

Chang's group has developed a way to observe gene activity without so much as a cheek swab.

Spotting them beneath his white clown makeup, he painted a thin black line in the dent on each cheek.

Forgive the sinner, and turn the other cheek for a while.

Rwandans simply live cheek by jowl in a football pitch.

They stuff food into their cheek pouches and carry it to their.

Well, the words were certainly chosen with a tongue firmly planted in one cheek.

Consider the response of a little girl who has a smudge of rouge on her cheek and sees her reflection in the mirror.

He doesn't lie when he wipes his hand across his cheek.

They stuff food into their cheek pouches and carry it to their burrows to store.

To prep the eye to receive the tooth and lens, the doctors placed a cheek graft over the eye to promote moisture.

She celebrated his attendance with a kiss on the cheek and a shake of her rump.

All at once he grabs her and gives her a sloppy kiss on the cheek.

He asked people if he could take a cheek swab for a study he was doing.

Like chipmunks, they have cheek pouches to carry their food.

Their name and view is essentially tongue in cheek when conveyed.

Adult: black neck and head with a contrasting white cheek patch.

Both breeds have eyes that easily pop out of the socket to rest on the cheek.

The male hepatic tanager is more brick red in color and has a grayer bill, grayer flanks, and a dark grayish cheek patch.

In the orangutan world males with flanges–or cheek pads–are also the dominant males.

All this material is stored in cheek pouches and, at the surface, mashed for consumption.

The water, at cheek level, comes directly from the spring and is pretty cold.

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Main Entry:	back talk
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	rude answer
Synonyms:	back answer, backchat, cheek, comeback, guff, insolence, insult, lip, mouth, nasty reply, rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, sass, sauce, short answer, uptake

Main Entry:	brass
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	impulsiveness; nerve
Synonyms:	assumption, audacity, brashness, cheek, chutzpah*, confidence, effrontery, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, presumption, rudeness
Antonyms:	carefulness, caution, circumspection, prudence

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	derriere
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	backside
Synonyms:	ass, bottom, buns, buttocks, can, cheeks, fanny, heinie, keister, posterior, rear, rear end, seat

Main Entry:	duff
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	rear end
Synonyms:	ass, backside, behind, buns, butt, buttocks, cheeks, derriere, fanny, gluteus maximus, heinie, keister, posterior, seat

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	effrontery
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	nerve, boldness
Synonyms:	arrogance, assurance, audacity, backtalk, brashness, brass, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah*, crust, disrespect, face, gall, guff, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, lip, presumption, rudeness, sass, sauce, self-assurance, self-confidence, shamelessness, smart talk, temerity
Notes:	effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult
Antonyms:	manners, modesty, shame, shyness

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	face
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	pretense, nerve
Synonyms:	air, audacity, boldness, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, cloak, confidence, cover, disguise, effrontery, facade, false front, front, gall, impertinence, impudence, mask, presumption, semblance, show, veil
Antonyms:	character, personality

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