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1. | Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. | |
2. | Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; | |
3. | Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; |
Adj. | 1. | insolent - marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior" |
2. | insolent - unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell |