Insolente in english
Insolent
pronunciation: ɪnsələnt part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: ɪnsələnt part of speech: adjective
In gestures
insolentarse = mouth off ; run + riot ; get + stroppy ; get + shirty.
Example: She walked into the tavern and started mouthing off about my less than exemplary manliness.Example: Most kids these days are not scared of a telling off and they are running riot.Example: Your righteous indignation I can understand, and even sympathise, but getting stroppy and fighting authority will only exacerbate the situation.Example: If he got shirty with you in a bar, you'd be forgiven for laughing him off.insolente = insolent ; brash ; cheeky ; petulant ; uncouth ; sassy ; flamer ; brazen ; impudent ; short-tempered ; off-hand [offhand] ; saucy ; pert ; stroppy ; in a strop ; bolshie [boshy] ; mouthy ; forward ; quick-tempered ; shirty [shirtier -comp., shirtiest -sup.,] ; ill-tempered ; bare-faced ; ratty .
Example: He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.Example: Caslon rejected the brash contrast of the later Dutch founts, and produced types that were without serious blemish, but also without much life.Example: The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.Example: His manner was more animated, but not in the usual petulant sense: he even seemed years younger.Example: All the writers chosen characterized eastern Europe throughout the 18th century as uncouth and backward.Example: This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.Example: Like other technologies, the Internet is vulnerable to misuse by hostile individuals (flamers), sexual predators, and pornographers.Example: They accepted the government's brazen lies stating that Ramón Colás, the co-founder of the library movement, has not been arrested as a prisoner of conscience.Example: The Library Association is impudent in suggesting that it will impose sanctions on those who fail to keep abreast of developments in librarianship.Example: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.Example: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.Example: Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.Example: He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.Example: My 11-year-old daughter has become really stroppy and prone to emotional outbursts, swearing at us and acting in a way that's completely unlike her.Example: Do you ever get in a strop or behave like a toddler having a tantrum in public?.Example: I showed one of the staff the video and he got quite bolshie with me, as my taping her was, according to him, a breach of her human rights.Example: The wife of a military officer serving overseas told detectives she fatally shot her teenage son because he was 'mouthy'.Example: Luckily the girl didn't seem affronted by Christina forward attitude, but rather was very friendly about the whole thing.Example: Lawson was a quick-tempered young woman but she also had a good heart and liked to dance when the mood struck her.Example: I'm at a shirty tiredness level where some chicken & then a good nap is preferable over sex.Example: Ill-tempered girls were also twice as likely as even-tempered girls to be divorced women at midlife (26% vs. 12%).Example: The bare-faced callousness of the American healthcare system is obvious.Example: As soon as we entered the restaurant we were greeted by a ratty lady that was rude and discourteous and the meals were a disgrace to say the least.more:
» de un modo insolente = defiantly .
Example: 'This is an order then,' she said defiantly, 'even though I'm supposedly in charge of pages'.» ser insolente con = be short with ; be snappy with .
Example: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload. Example: She was overweight, tired, exhibited some symptoms of depression, complained of boredom at work and was snappy with her two children and husband.