Dictionary Entry
Arrogant conduct; insulting, bold behaviour or attitude.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. insolence
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Poetry examples for “insolence”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →By the slow guile of their vindictiveness,
What ultimate insolence would soon be theirs.
Read full poem →The moder is of vice and negligence;
And powere also causith Insolence;
And hono_ur_ oftsiss changith gude thewis;
Read full poem →reason, and came back to London in extreme indigence, which Rochester
mentions with merciless insolence, in the Session of the Poets:
Read full poem →poems; it expresses contempt without coarseness, and superiority without
insolence. It had the success which it deserved, being five times
printed.