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1. marked by casual disrespect (Freq. 3) - a flip answer to serious question - the student was kept in for impudent behavior • Syn: impudent, snotty-nosed, flip • Similar to: disrespectful • Derivationally related forms: insolence 2. unrestrained by convention or propriety (Freq. 1) - an audacious trick to pull - a barefaced hypocrite - "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times - bald-faced lies - brazen arrogance - "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell • Syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced • Similar to: unashamed • Derivationally related forms: insolence, brazenness (for: brazen), brass (for: brassy), audacity (for: audacious), audaciousness (for: audacious)
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