Get to know Effrontery better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like presumption or presumptuousness.
Effrontery in a sentence
Effrontery meaning
- Insolent and shameless audacity.
- An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
Synonyms of Effrontery
Using Effrontery
- The main meaning on this page is: Insolent and shameless audacity. | An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
- Useful related words include: presumption, presumptuousness, assumption, audacity.
- In the example corpus, effrontery often appears in combinations such as: effrontery and.
Context around Effrontery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Effrontery
- In this selection, "effrontery" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, konstas, extreme, brazen, riled and rudeness stand out and add context to how "effrontery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include blh s effrontery and recklessness and for its effrontery while delaying. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "effrontery" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with effrontery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Saturninus then denounces the Andronici family for their effrontery and shocks Titus by marrying Tamora. (15 words)
The effrontery is such that staff was asked and made to forfeit their promotions arrears in their promotion letters! (19 words)
Konstas’ effrontery riled Mohammed Siraj, and he awakened in Virat Kohli old demons he looked to have subdued long ago. (20 words)
They tried to wrap their heads around BLH’s effrontery and recklessness in coming to Libya, a country that bears festering wounds inflicted on it by BHL and his fellow adherents of the “Right to protect” school. (37 words)
On the other hand, the implication of Alexander and Olympias seems specious: to act as they did would have required brazen effrontery in the face of a military personally loyal to Philip. (32 words)
Another remand would do little beside give the Board a free pass for its effrontery, while delaying the alien’s entitlement to a final decision. (25 words)
The effrontery is such that staff was asked and made to forfeit their promotions arrears in their promotion letters! (19 words)
Example sentences (8)
Konstas’ effrontery riled Mohammed Siraj, and he awakened in Virat Kohli old demons he looked to have subdued long ago.
Another remand would do little beside give the Board a free pass for its effrontery, while delaying the alien’s entitlement to a final decision.
They tried to wrap their heads around BLH’s effrontery and recklessness in coming to Libya, a country that bears festering wounds inflicted on it by BHL and his fellow adherents of the “Right to protect” school.
The since-deleted map, published last weekend, got the goat of many Africans on social media for what, at first glance, looked like extreme effrontery.
The effrontery is such that staff was asked and made to forfeit their promotions arrears in their promotion letters!
On the other hand, the implication of Alexander and Olympias seems specious: to act as they did would have required brazen effrontery in the face of a military personally loyal to Philip.
Saturninus then denounces the Andronici family for their effrontery and shocks Titus by marrying Tamora.
Yale's Timothy Dwight expressed satisfaction that the world no longer had to deal with a man of "peremptoriness and effrontery, rudeness and ribaldry".
Common combinations with effrontery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: