Jeffrey Kluger

You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!

American Writer

Annie Besant

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

English Philosopher

Gerhard Richter

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

German Artist

Peter Morgan

Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell.

British Writer

Jose Saramago

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Portuguese Writer

Junius

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Author

Robert Walpole

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

British Statesman

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

French Actress

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

German Philosopher

Homer

Greek Poet

Insolent often conveys strong disdain or contempt for authority or norms.

Negative Emotion

What's considered insolent can vary by culture; study local manners to understand limits.

Cultural Variance

Insolence can be shown through body language, not just words.

Non-Verbal Cues

Using 'insolent' as a noun is rare and can sound old-fashioned or literary.

Outdated Usage

In historical or fantasy settings, 'insolent' as a noun fits well for a disobedient character.

Historic Tone

As a noun, 'insolent' has a formal tone and may come across as a serious insult.

Formal Insult

 inequality and discrimination in other ways as well so there's a lot for us to fix and I'm very positive that this generation will be more responsible and they will make a better world for everyone tomorrow I'm mala thank you so much for being with us thank you for that address thank you it means insolent

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 is starting to scent mark vigorously the question is how long wilt in Ghana tolerates this insolent behavior as always a member of the ever-present Juma can paid the little chief a visit in hope that husana might have a free snack

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