effrontery

[US]/ɪˈfrʌntəri/
[UK]/ɪˈfrʌntəri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. shameless audacity, impudent behavior.

Example Sentences

one juror had the effrontery to challenge the coroner's decision.

He had the effrontery to say I was lying.

it was the sheer effrontery of them which got under my skin.

This is a despicable fraud. Just imagine that he has the effrontery to say it.

He had the effrontery to suggest that she enjoyed being unhappy.

How can he have had the effrontery to say “Piss off!” to you?

Real-world Examples

" My name, " said Raffles, with dry effrontery.

Source: Amateur Thief Rafiz

Gwendolen. They're looking at us. What effrontery!

Source: Not to be taken lightly.

She was helpless before such effrontery.

Source: The places where angels dare not tread.

Oh, woman, throw off your disguising cloaks of selfishness, effrontery, and affectation!

Source: Lazy Person's Thoughts Journal

He stumbled away to wash his hands, utterly crushed by her effrontery.

Source: The places where angels dare not tread.

He was generous, and the needy, laughing at him because he believed so naively their stories of distress, borrowed from him with effrontery.

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

He looked contemptuously from one to the other of these two underpaid flatfeet who had the effrontery to be taking up his time.

Source: 007 Series: Diamonds Are Forever (Part 1)

When this young man, who knows nothing and understands nothing, replies tactlessly and with effrontery to the representatives of the people, do the Liberals protest?

Source: The Biography of Tolstoy

" It tries to be elegant but is really a sham. Can't you see how he has the effrontery to compare his own shabby surveillance of us with God's providence" ?

Source: Sophie's World (Original Version)

Morison, was making his task an extremely difficult one-it was that quality of innate goodness and cleanness which is a good girl's stoutest bulwark and protection-an impregnable barrier that only degeneracy has the effrontery to assail.

Source: Son of Mount Tai (Part 2)

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