insolent
英['ɪns(ə)l(ə)nt]
美['ɪnsələnt]
- adj. 无礼的;傲慢的;粗野的;无耻的
英英释意
- 1. marked by casual disrespect;
- "a flip answer to serious question"
- "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
- 2. 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