I did this deliberately because I have two stepdaughters who treat me in a very insolent manner and will inherit from their mother. |
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Needless to say the female customer at the bar was shocked by the insolent talking beast. |
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The most careless and trivial movements were capable of transmitting the rudest and most insolent messages. |
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Has any country ever had a more arrogant, insolent, contemptuous leader than we have? |
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There was a slightly insolent tone to his voice, as if he wasn't used to actually being ordered around. |
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This shows how Kate has a mistaken identity because she appears rude and insolent. |
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Ours must be that first painful step of open and courageous defiance against an arrogant and insolent tyranny. |
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An insolent stranger makes an unexpected appearance in Tara's house claiming to be her illegitimate nephew. |
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Gossips themselves are classified with people who are slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful. |
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But in the Sixties, as some of us know, wearing modish flat shoes could be as much an act of insolent opposition as a fashion statement. |
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There is no privilege here, no escape from the insolent booth attendants, the ceaseless demands of the homeless, and the pungent overcrowding. |
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A few dozen insolent soldiers were watching every move he made today and he had gotten painful lessons earlier that morning. |
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One should not be arrogant or insolent but rather be kind, considerate and courteous towards them. |
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When an actor who looks like he or she is still in middle school behaves like a spoiled, insolent brat, it's nothing but par for the course. |
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History has a way of ignoring such insolent details, of weaving them seamlessly into its larger narrative fabric. |
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Dozens of early explorers met their deaths down there, baffled by the mazy, alien geography, plagued by hunger, thirst and insolent kangaroos. |
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He thereby manifested what can only be considered an insolent disregard of this Court's adjudgments. |
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Planters frequently used the whip on bondsmen whom they deemed insolent or guilty of committing crimes. |
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The very stylish decor and layout could unfortunately not make up for the very expensive bar prices and the rude and insolent staff. |
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Indifferent, insolent, squally weather put a bit of a damper on the festive and cultural activities over the bank holiday weekend. |
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John reproves what he perceives as the author's insolent comments and suggests bringing his angry feelings to God in prayer. |
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It can only suffer economic loss which cannot be aggravated by the insulting or insolent behaviour of the defendant. |
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Why does she treat me like I am a spoilt child who is rude and insolent even when I am quite clearly not? |
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Rampant fanaticism and tawdry, insolent antics only hurt the feminist cause. |
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Still, the way the insolent and foul-mouthed Tora and the starchily patronizing Selma go from hostility to sisterhood is not without interest. |
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Beware of an insolent person who is destructive and selfish. |
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Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity. |
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The disembodied voice sounded just like Riona, bold and insolent. |
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We have none of that faculty, so good at a pinch, which enabled an ingenious person to make ropes out of sea-sand, to the utter dismay of an insolent sceptic. |
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So when in 1730, a poor merchant took the course with his donkey, he was handed down a hefty fine for his insolent misdeed. |
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He throws himself around, shucks off his clothes with an insolent twist, grinds the floor, hoists women into his lap. |
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This is the time to love passive mortification which comes, hidden perhaps or barefaced and insolent, when we least expect it. |
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At this fun and splashy ball-catching game, pick out your seal carefully to avoid Nino, the insolent, ball-stealing dolphin. |
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What looked right for Arnold Schwarzenegger on the campaign trail would look a bit insolent in the corridors of government. |
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You have interfered, with insolent arrogance, in the work of the Convention, going so far as to style yourself virtual president of the Union. |
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In answer to that all I can say is: yes, I do miss the emotional presence of those whom I had the insolent good fortune to know! |
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Playing Lucy Collins, the troubled daughter of the neighbourhood's petit bourgeois family, she constantly bristled with an insolent ennui and a mild subversiveness. |
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I keep this in mind when I tell the hotel people how insolent and useless and above all stupid they are for giving me such a stupid and smelly room. |
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The modern tendency of teachers is to beat around the bush and write "unco-operative" when they really mean insolent, lazy, and addicted to guerilla-type behaviour. |
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This means that the lazy, insolent functionnaire mentality prevails rather than a hard-working energetic one. |
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And why do we say the insolent and impertinent are brass-necked? |
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He went out of his way to be just as impolite and insolent as he could be. |
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Donovan had been terminated following 36 years of service on the grounds that he had been insolent to a customer and had placed himself in a conflict of interest. |
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The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be. |
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It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. |
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He will be like a justly annoyed mother who, after sharply correcting her insolent child, will kiss it when it responds with repentance and respect. |
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It is the very same citizens who have to stand by and watch inadequate police action being taken to tackle this increasingly insolent criminal behaviour. |
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Everything seems to suggest that within this province with its different minorities, the Serbs are once again turning more insolent and more radical. |
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The upper-class French are insolent, their dogs wear perukes and the lower orders have a shifty, hungry look about them. |
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The ropieur symbolizes a young insolent resident of Mons, drenching passersby with water from the fountain. |
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They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin. |
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All are working against us, so sneaky when they think we are strong and determined, so impudent or even insolent when they believe we are blinded by their protestations of false friendship. |
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It has now become clear that the European Union is not equal to Turkey's insolent way of negotiating, which my colleague described, somewhat sarcastically but perfectly accurately, as bazaar-style haggling. |
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It was an almost insolent gesture for a well-born British woman then. |
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Hollande's idea was regarded as insolent when he first pitched it. |
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Imperious despot, insolent in strife, Lover of ruin, enemy of life! |
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It was an urgency that some saw as bold and others viewed as insolent. |
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So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. |
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There is no point in having a diverse and often insolent press unless you tolerate it without resorting to the security forces or an easily influenced legal system. |
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Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return. |
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In the poem Southey is dismissed as insolent, narrow and shabby. |
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My father did speak much of the day he was not speedily to forget, videlicet May Day of 1517, when there was great apprentice rioting against insolent foreigners. |
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According to the common vicissitude and wheel of things, the proud and the insolent, after long trampling upon others, come at length to be trampled upon themselves. |
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The other member, by whose felt but unseized identity he had been haunted, was the unconsciously insolent form of guaranteed happiness he had just been engaged with. |
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