Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition.
synonym: manque.
Roget 885:
insolent,
haughty,
arrogant,
imperious,
magisterial,
dictatorial,
arbitrary;
high-handed,
high and mighty;
contumelious,
supercilious,
overbearing,
intolerant,
domineering,
overweening,
high-flown.
flippant,
pert,
fresh [U.S.],
cavalier,
saucy,
forward,
impertinent,
malapert.
precocious,
assuming,
would-be,
bumptious.
bluff;
brazen,
shameless,
aweless,
unblushing†,
unabashed;
brazen,
boldfaced-,
barefaced-,
brazen-faced;
dead to shame,
lost to shame.
impudent,
audacious,
presumptuous,
free and easy,
devil-may-care,
rollicking;
jaunty,
janty†;
roistering,
blustering,
hectoring,
swaggering,
vaporing;
thrasonic,
fire eating,
full of sound and fury"
[Macbeth].
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Roget 925:
undue;
unlawful
etc.
(illegal)
964;
unconstitutional;
illicit;
unauthorized,
unwarranted,
disallowed,
unallowed†,
unsanctioned,
unjustified;
unentitled†,
disentitled,
unqualified,
disqualified;
unprivileged,
unchartered.
illegitimate,
bastard,
spurious,
supposititious,
false;
usurped.
tortious [Law].
undeserved,
unmerited,
unearned;
unfulfilled.
forfeited,
disfranchised.
improper;
unmeet,
unfit,
unbefitting,
unseemly;
unbecoming,
misbecoming†;
seemless†;
contra bonos mores [Lat.];
not the thing,
out of the question,
not to be thought of;
preposterous,
pretentious,
would-be.
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