insolently

Example Sentences

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He insolently stopped to gas up his bike.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Similarly arresting was the famous cover photograph, taken by her then-partner Robert Mapplethorpe, depicting an androgynous Smith in a white shirt, her jacket slung Sinatra-style over her shoulder and looking insolently into the camera.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2020

“The decision was not simply lawless, but insolently so,” he wrote in The Atlantic.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2019

We are in London in that riotous, rampant, and insolently creative year of 1963.

From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013

And certainly they couldn’t be spoken to insolently.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou