effrontery in English
one juror had the effrontery to challenge the coroner's decision
Use "effrontery" in a sentence
1. He denied with bland effrontery.
2. Why are you showing such effrontery?
3. As nouns the difference between Affrontery and effrontery is that Affrontery is while effrontery is (uncountable) insolent and shameless audacity.
4. In the Imperial Japanese Fleet it was suicidal effrontery.
5. He admired the effrontery with which she bargained.
6. The arrogant effrontery of the man defied belief.
7. The United Nations Security Council speedily condemned the nuclear effrontery.
8. I'll see if you have the effrontery to face her.
9. Maybe effrontery would dismiss him as too negligible to pursue.
10. He had the effrontery to say I was lying.
11. She had the effrontery to ask me for more money.
12. One of them had the effrontery to bring a wraith back once.
13. One could only gasp at the sheer effrontery of the man.
14. He had the effrontery to suggest that she enjoyed being unhappy.
15. Synonyms for Brazenness include cheek, audacity, effrontery, nerve, gall, impudence, presumption, temerity, chutzpah and presumptuousness
16. This is a despicable fraud . Just imagine that he has the effrontery to say it.
17. It was the sheer effrontery, the excessive assurance of them which got under my skin.
18. Some common synonyms of Chutzpah are audacity, cheek, effrontery, gall, hardihood, nerve, and temerity
19. The effrontery of his deceptions inside and outside the conference room could be enraging.
20. The weak gain strength through effrontery and the strong grow weak because of inhibitions.
21. The politician had the effrontery to ask the people he had insulted to vote for him.
22. To act or speak with effrontery. Used in the imperative to express contempt or disdainful disbelief.
23. That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis.
24. Synonyms for Cheekiness include cheek, audacity, effrontery, impudence, nerve, brazenness, presumption, gall, impertinence and chutzpah
25. Synonyms for Brashness include cheek, audacity, effrontery, nerve, brazenness, gall, chutzpah, presumption, presumptuousness and brass
26. For them to front an evil with plain speech is to be guilty of effrontery.
27. He has achieved this partly through sheer verbal effrontery, as in his badmouthing of George Bush.
28. Utter nerve; effrontery: "has the Chutzpah to claim a lock on God and morality"
29. He was silent all through the meal and then had the effrontery to complain that I looked bored!
30. He might even pray earnestly to Saint Winifred to protect him, he had the innocent effrontery for it.
31. It would be a man, of course; only a man would have the sheer effrontery to do that.
32. Only a person who is congenitally self - centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
33. You had the effrontery to die without a struggle, though it was not too late, even then.
34. Years later, Ogwen apprenticeship having been served, we began to aspire to their routes, knees knocking at our effrontery.
35. (1) But woe Betide the people when they have the effrontery to take a stand on higher principles
36. Buttonholers AND DAMNED PERNICIOUS GO-BETWEENS ACT I Scene 1: Rubbish, Trifles, and Dastardly Foul Effrontery 1807, May
37. While all these words mean "conspicuous or flagrant boldness," nerve, cheek, gall, and Chutzpah are informal equivalents for effrontery
38. To offend by an open manifestation of disrespect; put a slight upon; offend by effrontery or insolence: as, to affront one by doubting his word; an Affronting speech
39. The figurative sense of "hardened in effrontery" is from 1570s (in Brazen-faced), perhaps suggesting a face unable to show shame.To Brazen it "face impudently" is from 1550s
40. Obsolete spelling of effrontery 1868, Stephen Meany, Speeches from the Dock, Part I[1]: With an Affrontery that did not falter, and knew not how to blush, he detailed his own participation in the acts for which he was prosecuting me as a participator