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effrontery
(mass) | effrontery
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effrontery
(encz) | effrontery,drzost n: Zdeněk Brož |
effrontery
(encz) | effrontery,nabubřelost n: Jakub Kalousek |
effrontery
(encz) | effrontery,nestoudnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
effrontery
(encz) | effrontery,zpupnost n: Jakub Kalousek |
Effrontery
(gcide) | Effrontery \Ef*front"er*y\, n.; pl. Effronteries. [F.
effronterie, fr. effront['e] shameless, fr. L. effrons,
-ontis, putting forth the forehead, i. e., barefaced,
shameless; ex + frons the forehead. See Front.]
Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the
bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness;
shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
[1913 Webster]
Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. --Bancroft.
Syn: Impudence; sauciness. See Impudence.
[1913 Webster] |
effrontery
(wn) | effrontery
n 1: audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right
to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" [syn:
presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery,
assumption] |
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