effrontery.
Insolent and shameless audacity.
Meaning & usage
Insolent and shameless audacity.
We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.
Where this word comes from
From late 17th century French effronterie, from effronté (“shameless, insolent”), from Old French esfronté, from Vulgar Latin *exfrontātus. Compare Latin effrōns (“barefaced”), from the prefix ex- (“from”) + frōns (“forehead”) (English: front). By surface analysis, ef- + front + -er + -y.
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