A proud man is apt to domineer with insolency when he gets any advantage, and perceiveth himself on the higher ground.
To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontentments to evaporate (so it be without too great insolency or bravery), is a safe way.
It is well, when nobles are not too great for sovereignty nor for justice; and yet maintained in that height, as the insolency of inferiors may be broken upon them, before it come on too fast upon the majesty of kings.
Indeed, I was already not a little disturbed in my mind, foreseeing that if the fellow would put on thisinsolency of bearing so soon, we should go through rough water presently.
Mr. Lummis, to whom the captain left all this matter, roared out a string of oaths and commanded the men to seize that rascal who had the insolency to order the captain's goings.
My greatest joy is to have ben so happie as to have bin a small instrument in this last encounter, to chastise so high an insolency as that of the Dutch.
Yea,' said he, 'their insolency is not to be endured.
But here, where the heady or headless multitude have gotten the power into their hands, there is insolency and confusion; and I know not how it can be avoided, unless we should make the doors of the church narrower.
Shall I tell you what I think to be the ground of all this insolency which discovers itself in the speech of men?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insolency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
