Vocabulary Word
Word: effrontery
Definition: rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless boldness; presumptousness; nerve; cheek
Definition: rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless boldness; presumptousness; nerve; cheek
Sentences Containing 'effrontery'
In France, my dear sir, half such a piece of effrontery as that would cause you to be quickly despatched to Toulon for five years, for change of air.''
But, as is commonly said, one evil calls up another and the end of one misfortune is apt to be the beginning of one still greater, and so it proved in my case; for my worthy servant, until then so faithful and trusty when he found me in this lonely spot, moved more by his own villainy than by my beauty, sought to take advantage of the opportunity which these solitudes seemed to present him, and with little shame and less fear of God and respect for me, began to make overtures to me; and finding that I replied to the effrontery of his proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside the entreaties which he had employed at first, and began to use violence.
Camilla was uneasy at this, dreading lest it might prove the means of endangering her honour, and asked whether her intrigue had gone beyond words, and she with little shame and much effrontery said it had; for certain it is that ladies' imprudences make servants shameless, who, when they see their mistresses make a false step, think nothing of going astray themselves, or of its being known.
More Vocab Words
::: fritter - waste (time or money on unimportant things)::: institution - instituting; (building for the) organization; established custom, practice, or relationship in a society; mental hospital; Ex. institution of marriage
::: bluff - pretense (of strength); deception; high cliff; ADJ: rough but good-natured
::: dapper - neat and trim (in appearance); (of small men) neat in appearance and quick in movements; neat; spry
::: penumbra - partial shadow (in an eclipse); CF. almost shadow
::: beget - father; become the father of; produce; give rise to
::: bluster - blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully; speak in a noisy or bullying manner; CF. breeze, gust, gale
::: encroachment - gradual intrusion; Ex. I resent all these encroachments on my valuable time; V. encroach: take another's possessions or right gradually or stealthily; intrude; Ex. encroach on/upon
::: pretext - excuse
::: domineer - rule over tyrannically
