Even after clear evidence was shown, the jury was shocked by the defendant's effrontery in denying any guilt. From LearnThat.org.
Noun, : She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples. From Dictionary.com.
Yet there she was, and moving with a leisureliness that must be described as effrontery!. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Their latest topic is the "effrontery" of ... digg. From Wordnik.com. [Reese Schonfeld: Jon Stewart Deserves a News Emmy] Reference
Their latest topic is the "effrontery" of Jon Stewart who, by interviewing Jim Cramer, invaded their territory. From Wordnik.com. [Reese Schonfeld: Jon Stewart Deserves a News Emmy] Reference
So, I find I can't agree that his presence is an "effrontery," although I wholeheartedly agree that it is politically incongruous. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
This is a much more frequent cause than one might think of the exhibition of an effrontery which is apparently deliberate and intentional. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
“That’s a pretty piece of effrontery, that is,” said Nigel hotly. From Wordnik.com. [Death in Ecstasy]
There were women in the village who considered her rare and unmistakable beauty a kind of effrontery, at least they resented it with the same angry disapproval. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Fife] Reference
In the exchanges, Mr Gray accused Mr Salmond of "effrontery", and highlighted the case of a wheelchair-bound woman facing steep increases in charges for a community alarm. From Wordnik.com. [icWestlothian] Reference
The amazing effrontery of the proposal made me gasp. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
They reached such recklessness and effrontery, that a. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
William could never have been guilty of such effrontery. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
The latter had the monstrous effrontery, after having made. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
Mahomet had the impious effrontery to sanction it by special. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
I listened to learn just how far your effrontery would carry you. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
"I like hunting very much," replied the lover, with rare effrontery. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The theatres in particular pirate from us with unexampled effrontery. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Here we met with an incident, which nothing but Jesuitical effrontery is equal to. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
To advise immediate arrests already made at your instigation was insulting effrontery. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Each attempt to describe becomes near effrontery and demands its own separate apology. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
Or was this only a blind, a splendid piece of effrontery to cover his too long delayed retreat?. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
What matchless coolness! what a splendid display of conscious innocence! or of cool effrontery!. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Now, he might have the effrontery to deny what I had seen with my own eyes, and could swear to. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
With an effrontery natural to women of her type she was wearing the very ornament she had stolen. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference
Yet, when she paused in, rather than concluded her invective, he had already recovered his effrontery. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
If they knew of Oswald's flight and after hiding, the Laniers could move about with brazen effrontery. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
We hesitated for a second, I think because of the brazen effrontery, the splendid calmness of the man. From Wordnik.com. [32 Caliber] Reference
The debased heart felt that there was a punishment, which no rank, wealth, or effrontery could resist. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
The two members were still in their chairs, probably sleeping lightly; yet he had the effrontery to thank me. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
He soon left the latter, and accosted the former with unblushing effrontery, and asked him for a cask of flour. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Now, although he has said much in regard to "the effrontery of the Southern members of the convention" that formed the. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Law, has ever had the unblushing effrontery to contend that the clause in question is not applicable to fugitive slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
William felt disgusted with the cool infamy of the fellow, and at the magnitude and effrontery of the publican's dishonesty. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
He must behave with tame and passive insolence, never breaking into active effrontery excepting towards unprotected women and clergymen. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
"Here's John Hielan'man," she said to herself, and she recalled, not to Gilian's credit in the comparison, the effrontery of Young Islay. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
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