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effrontery
/ɪˈfɹʌntɚi/
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What does effrontery mean?
noun
- Insolent and shameless audacity.
- An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪˈfɹʌntɚi/
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Lily had the effrontery to come out with, “She sang the song of Home, Sweet Home, the song that touched my heart.”
He was generous, and the needy, laughing at him because he believed so naively their stories of distress, borrowed from him with effrontery.
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It is truly amazing that the Law had the effrontery to turn upon its divine Author, and that without a show of right.
He stood close to her, and the effrontery in his eyes repelled the old, vanishing self in her, yet drew all her awakening sensuousness.
Another method was to take into service young boys, who soon became lost to society, and lied with effrontery and obstinacy.