How do you use Insolent in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like impudent or brazen, plus the exact meaning.
Insolent in a sentence
Insolent meaning
- Insulting in manner or words, particularly in an arrogant or insubordinate manner.
- Rude.
Synonyms of Insolent
Using Insolent
- The main meaning on this page is: Insulting in manner or words, particularly in an arrogant or insubordinate manner. | Rude.
- Useful related words include: impudent, brazen-faced, brazen, brassy.
- In the example corpus, insolent often appears in combinations such as: an insolent, insolent and, and insolent.
Context around Insolent
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 14 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Insolent
- In this selection, "insolent" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, headed, rude, cool, conviction, beauty and beheading stand out and add context to how "insolent" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a cool insolent sense of and angry and insolent homelander knowing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "insolent" sits close to words such as abhinandan, abhor and abscesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with insolent
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Although beautiful and indulged, she is insolent and spiteful. (9 words)
They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. (10 words)
He’s high-maintenance, wicked smart, insolent, and funny as hell. (11 words)
It seemed only a few years back that he was on stage as the gay schoolboy Guy Bennett in the hit play Another Country – his lanky, mop-headed, insolent beauty a foil to a fellow pupil played by the young Kenneth Branagh in all his sturdy sandiness. (47 words)
Yes, she was just as manipulative as everyone else around her, but showed her intelligence early on when dealing with an angry and insolent Homelander, knowing what to say and do to protect herself while trying to maintain her sense of morality. (42 words)
He is tough, assured and insolent - in a way that recalls late Dick Powell rather than early Bogart ; but his bright blue eyes and blond hair, his boyish face suggest the all-American athlete, perhaps going to seed. (38 words)
How dare this man speak to the mayor of our capital city, a woman, in this insolent manner? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
His words pirouetted with insolent conviction, inciting more doomsday predictions across his WhatsApp forum.
It seemed only a few years back that he was on stage as the gay schoolboy Guy Bennett in the hit play Another Country – his lanky, mop-headed, insolent beauty a foil to a fellow pupil played by the young Kenneth Branagh in all his sturdy sandiness.
Jurors were told Shahpal’s reaction was to praise the murder, calling Mr Paty a “cursed teacher” and repeatedly tweeting that “there is only one punishment for an insolent – beheading, beheading”.
Shahpal also saw fit to tweet an image of the severed head of Mr Paty lying on the street, saying that “the insolent had been sent to hell”.
What a bunch of rude, insolent fools we have to look after our affairs.
He addressed Biden in an insolent and insulting manner, attempting to portray Biden as weak.
Mashrafe Mortaza got slightly annoyed by an insolent question from a journalist during a pre-series press conference.
On screen, Connery brimmed with innate sexuality, topped off by a cool, insolent sense of menace.
They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful.
He was silent on stoning insolent teenagers and those mixing polyester and cotton also prescribed in Leviticus.
I emerged, smiling, to be greeted by insolent and miserable stares, but I ploughed on.
Yes, she was just as manipulative as everyone else around her, but showed her intelligence early on when dealing with an angry and insolent Homelander, knowing what to say and do to protect herself while trying to maintain her sense of morality.
He’s high-maintenance, wicked smart, insolent, and funny as hell.
How dare this man speak to the mayor of our capital city, a woman, in this insolent manner?
It has been revealed that the owners of various pubs in the Compound were insolent even after the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) sent them several notices for violation of norms.
Although beautiful and indulged, she is insolent and spiteful.
He is tough, assured and insolent - in a way that recalls late Dick Powell rather than early Bogart ; but his bright blue eyes and blond hair, his boyish face suggest the all-American athlete, perhaps going to seed.
He was highstrung, unruly, occasionally hard and insolent; he did not fit the image of wise, disciplined men of science.
On one occasion during a heated Privy Council debate on the problems in Ireland, the Queen reportedly cuffed an insolent Essex round the ear, prompting him to half draw his sword on her.
The evening when the cutter was taken, the people had become "insolent" even with threats to fire upon them.
Common combinations with insolent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an insolent 4×
- insolent and 4×
- and insolent 3×
- insolent even 2×