insolently

Example Sentences

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He insolently stopped to gas up his bike.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

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

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2019

On the back cover, beside the track list, the same figure was in a phone box, staring insolently into the camera.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2016

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

From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013

Loitering stablehands eyed her insolently, but Ser Horas Redwyne averted his gaze as she passed, and his brother Hobber pretended not to see her.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin