insolence

Roget category 885

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.5. Extrinsic affections

#885. [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence

noun

insolence — haughtiness etc. adj. — arrogance, airs — overbearance^† — domineering etc. v. — tyranny etc. 739.
impertinence — sauciness etc. adj. — flippancy, dicacity^†, petulance, procacity^†, bluster — swagger, swaggering etc. v. — bounce — terrorism.
assumption, presumption — beggar on horseback — usurpation.
impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass — shamelessness etc. adj. — effrontery, hardened front, face of brass.
assumption of infallibility.
saucebox etc. (blusterer) 887^†.

verb

be insolent etc. adj. — bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust — swear etc. (affirm) 535 — rap out oaths — roister.
arrogate — assume, presume — make bold, make free — take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.
domineer, bully, dictate, hector — lord it over — traiter de haut en bas [Fr.], regarder de haut en bas [Fr.] — exact — snub, huff.
, beard, fly in the face of — put to the blush — bear down, beat down — browbeat, intimidate — trample down, tread down, trample under foot — dragoon, ride roughshod over.
out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen^†, outbrave^† — stare out of countenance — brazen out — lay down the law — teach one's grandmother to suck eggs — assume a lofty bearing — talk big, look big — put on big looks, act the grand seigneur [Fr.] — mount the high horse, ride the high horse — toss the head, carry, with a high hand.
tempt Providence, want snuffing.

adjective

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].

adverb

with a high hand — ex cathedra [Lat.].

phrase

one's bark being worse than his bite — beggars mounted run their horse to death" [Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Lat.]? [Plutarch]; wagahai wa [Jap.] (expressing superiority) [Jap.Tr.].

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