effrontery
Example Sentences
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One provision stands out for its sheer effrontery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
The four band members were low-born Northerners from a dingy port town with no formal education; their success was against the natural order of things, an act of effrontery.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2023
Walters, who died Friday at 93, was America’s Grand Inquisitor, a groundbreaking journalist who was unafraid to probe the unapproachable with people unaccustomed to such effrontery.
From Slate • Dec. 31, 2022
He seemed to have a desire to shock and had been described as an astounding combination of insight, intuition and effrontery.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2022
Perhaps he had found a means of assaulting the effrontery of M. Minkoff.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing effrontery
The Crucible
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