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effrontery
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As a noun, effrontery means insolent and shameless audacity.
Meanings of effrontery
3 meaningsnoun
Insolent and shameless audacity.
“We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.”
An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
“Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.”
Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
“he despised them for their presumptuousness”
Similar: presumption, presumptuousness, assumption
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
noun: audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
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