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effrontery

[ih-fruhn-tuh-ree] / ɪˈfrʌn tə ri /


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One provision stands out for its sheer effrontery.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

It was followed by the trademark look of complete effrontery at the perceived injustice of it all, even though there was none.

From BBC Mar. 12, 2024

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

Thompson, skilled at both effrontery and anxiety, mines that tension brilliantly.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2022

Leaving everybody to wonder where she had learned her effrontery from.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Rare is the U. S. editor who has not snorted at the studied effronteries of George Bernard Shaw, recognizing them for what they frankly are: publicity bait.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition, I must devise some means of handling M. Minkoff s latest effronteries.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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