Insolent

(a.) Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual.

(a.) Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.

(a.) Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior.

埃莉整理

• Then, they are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I put my request in an absurd, almost insolent form. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He was ugly and insolent. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In this state Frank Churchill had found her, she trembling and conditioning, they loud and insolent. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Any mental activity but their own struck them as being insolent. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• So insolent, so trivial, so capricious, so mercenary, so careless, so hard to touch, so hard to turn! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Rebecca had her revenge now upon these insolent enemies. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I had only noticed her temper at firSt. I noticed her wretchedness now--and wretchedness is not uncommonly insolent, you will find, in humble life. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Lucy, she is insolent; and, I believe, false. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I had not felt the man's insolent letter, but I felt deeply the woman's atoning kindness. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• One instance was that the son of one of these experts was employed in the office, and when he was told to do anything would not do it, or would give an insolent reply. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• No insolence of Mr. Fairlie's, if he chose to be insolent, could wound me now. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• What a face she had--so comely--so insolent and so selfish! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She passes close to him, with her usual fatigued manner and insolent grace. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And this insolent peasant,--he too, I warrant me, is to be dismissed scatheless? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• You are insolent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Oh, barbarously insolent! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• When we got to the point where we employed eighty of these experts they formed a union; and knowing it was impossible to manufacture lamps without them, they became very insolent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• How insolent in me to turn on her thus for what, after all, was no fault--only an excess of conscientiousness on her part. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And how dare you encourage him, you insolent minx? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• That ugly dream of insolent words spoken about herself, could never be forgotten--but could be put aside till she was stronger--for, oh! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Insolent girl! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Mr Wrayburn, at least I know very well that it would be idle to set myself against you in insolent words or overbearing manners. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and, by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• And all this with such a sneering, leering, insolent face that I would have knocked him down twenty times over if he had been a man of my own age. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• You're an insolent impertinent fellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He was insolent, as all ignorant people are. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Martin went, and Matthew sent another insolent laugh after him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He had resumed his seat, the cigar still projecting at an insolent angle from the corner of his mouth. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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