(n.) Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anyway, he stood up there gripping the railing, and he was furious at the effrontery of this, and I guess he could already see that his plan was in danger.
(2) That corporations are people was not the great effrontery of the US supreme court's evisceration of democratic principle.
(3) Choking back tears of fury and laughter at the sheer effrontery of it all, Ronald Koeman will endeavour to keep a straight face while demanding £50m.
(4) Nobody had that effrontery to wear those kinds of outfits before."
(5) The effrontery of Cameron’s speech last Friday , opening public services to more privatising, suggests they are recklessly off the leash.
(6) No council leader would have had Livingstone’s shameless effrontery to suggest that those trying to stop the Heron Tower erupting on the skyline were the “heritage Taliban” .
(7) The other factor is that governments have become more vindictive in their pursuit of those who have had the effrontery to tell the truth about their activities.
(8) The sheer, sexist, chauvinistic, patronising effrontery of the man!
(9) He is not used to being confronted by people who have the power, the skill and the simple effrontery to challenge him – and to keep on challenging him.
(10) As the editor in question, I am not able to compete with Murdoch in fabrication – he has had a lifetime of experience – but I do happen to have retained my memory of the year editing the Times, made notes, kept documents and even had the effrontery to write a whole bestselling book about it in 1983, called Good Times, Bad Times.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest London’s Heron Tower: ‘Ken Livingstone had the shameless effrontery to suggest that those trying to stop it erupting on the skyline were the heritage Taliban.’ Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian It was a destiny made manifest in his decisions on everything from aesthetics to congestion charging.
(12) It is hard to put it better than the man who, during the election, reacted to the endorsement of the Conservative anti-tax campaign by Sir Philip and other big business beasts by saying: "I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.
(13) He was already working at the extremes of the domestic and the risqué; his placid mother and child carvings contrasting with the sheer effrontery of such works as Votes for Women, an explicit carving showing the act of intercourse, woman of course on top.
(14) The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, said: "I have no time for billionaire tax dodgers who step off the plane from their tax havens into the country where they make their money and have the effrontery to tell us how to vote and how to run our tax policies.
(15) The story continues thus: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 4.29pm BST 4.20pm BST Probably little more than barefaced effrontery on Brazil's part, but here's more on that Thiago Silva story .
(16) Osborne's jaw-dropping effrontery often leaves opponents winded.
(17) Avant-garde aesthetics and feminist politics now combined to produce an art of fearless effrontery.
(18) What effrontery for health ministers to flourish a list of 53 organisations they claim support the bill, including all the royal colleges, the King's Fund and the entire panoply of the medical establishment – without asking their permission.
(19) After reading about 400 graduates applying for an internship, the effrontery of being expected to pay £4.50 for a watery beer in a badly decorated pub is enough to make you want to stay in.
(20) Perhaps his effrontery inspired Tettey in the 32nd minute, when Hoolahan's cross was headed out to him.
Impudence
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet it was still an encouraging victory for Mourinho’s team and a difficult afternoon for Tottenham Hotspur was probably summed up by the moment Dele Alli, the impudent young buck, tried to upstage Michael Carrick by slipping the ball through his opponent’s legs.
(2) Ozil is an impudent playmaker who usually flits behind the lone striker, finding space and creating opportunities with his sublime left foot.
(3) She says she saw the girls' "devilish twitching" and "committing impudences".
(4) Caballero could not keep out Emre Can’s impudent little pitch-wedge to get the penalties underway but thereafter he was unbeatable, diving to his left to turn away a decent attempt by Lucas Leiva, a hesitant one from Philippe Coutinho, and then the other way to beat out Adam Lallana’s effort for his third successive save.
(5) Henderson skied a glorious chance over from Sterling's pass and it needed an instinctive save from Lloris to prevent Sturridge scoring with an impudent back-heel.
(6) Robbing the Royal Mail was, as the trial judge, Mr Justice Edmund Davies, told Biggs , "a crime which, in its impudence and enormity, is the first of its kind in this country."
(7) The nutmeg from Messi left him on his backside and, high in the stands, Pep Guardiola could be seen with his head in his hands, howling with laughter at the impudence of his former player.
(8) The judge told them, as he sent them away for 30 years, that it was “a crime which in its impudence and enormity is the first of its kind in this country.
(9) Arsenal played at times as if it would have been impudent to trouble the Spaniard.
(10) Chelsea were stunned, almost into submission and when Lanzini, whose impudent touches and ease on the ball made him a delight to watch, carved them open with a delightful backheel, Aaron Cresswell would have made it 2-0 if Branislav Ivanovic had not deflected his effort past the left post.
(11) Both players scored within three minutes of one another and, however impudent it was for Mourinho to shake Ferguson's hand and set off for the dugout with the final exchanges of stoppage time still to be played, the truth is the game had already been won.
(12) New junior doctors' contract changes everything I signed up for Read more With sickness levels running at record levels, you would expect the government to act more sensitively and with less impudence.
(13) As a reward for my impudence, I was sent on my way with a pat on the shoulder, a "well done, son".
(14) He decorated a driving performance with an impudent nutmeg on Luka Modric.
(15) What kind of a union of partners treats one of its members like a recalcitrant colony, destroys its economy if it steps out of line, and dismisses its democracy as an impudent affront?
(16) Before being cut off by a prison official, Tolokonnikova said: "I hope they don't have the impudence to jail him – because, after all, he is even more of a media figure among the people than the members of Pussy Riot, at least in Russia .
(17) But instead of closing ranks and crushing this impudent upstart, Cameron and Brown fell over themselves to win his support.
(18) "It has become a symbol of women's freedom in western nations and with impudence they want to free her," the foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast protested last month.
(19) Add ingenious, impudent finishing and you have a footballer who truly quickens the pulse."
(20) Yet it is not so easy understanding why Rooney, playing so well in his new midfield role, needs to be rested (England’s next game would not be until Saturday at the earliest) and it is worth keeping in mind Slovakia beat Spain in qualifying and were impudent enough to win 3-1 when Germany invited them to Augsburg for a friendly a few weeks ago.