If Marcia and Eugene would not tease her so continually, and laugh at the quick and sometimes insolent retorts!
Floyd Grandon is sorely tempted to knock down this handsome, insolent fellow, even if he is a brother.
Laura has less of that insolent superiority when madame is present, and Mrs. Grandon seems more gentle.
Gentlemen, I thank you, especially that you have at last annihilated this accursed Union [Applause] reeking with corruption, and insolent with excess of tyranny.
They will not fail to remember their insolent refusal to counsel with us, and their haughty assumption of responsibility upon themselves for their misguided action.
The heart of Modred was haughty, insolent and untractable; he turned a deaf ear to the supplication of the helpless, he listened not to the thunder of the Gods.
Success had not taught him a despotic and untractable temper, applause had not made him insolent and vain.
I was present at part of his trial, and a more callous, thoroughly insolent creature I never saw.
He was riding like a king, with his insolent dark face turned to the sun.
Dean Swift, standing one morning at the window of his study, observed a decent old woman offer a paper to one of his servants, which the fellow at first refused in an insolent and surly manner.
The warrant for their arrest was placed in the hands of Constable Bettisworth, an over-bearing, insolent officer.
The daughter, unable to brook delay, and furious at Trimmer's insolent opposition to her will, entered the room at this moment.
Charities, indeed, when we have to pinch and screw to satisfy insolent tradesmen, and the everlasting hunger of a lot of cringing, crawling loafers and vagabonds who won't work!
I never knew before what insolent things a hostess can do, nor what false positions poverty can push one into.
On the other hand, the young heathens, insolent ones, fearless ones, devils and wretches dragging out his treasure.
The heathens, insolent ones, fearless ones, devils and wretches burrowed so long, and worked so hard to overthrow Isshur, that they succeeded in arriving at a certain road.
This was the demand of the new generation that was made up entirely of heathens, insolent ones, fearless ones, devils and wretches.
Well, they saw us come forth from the room on the left; and that fool is as malicious and insolent as he is drunken.
And then with a short, insolent laugh he returned for the hat he had left hanging upon a nail.
Was it not more play-acting, as insolent as anything he could do, as insolent as his kissing her had been!
And though he was breathing more quickly still he had his quiet insolentlaugh for still further insult.
Against this physical bigness, against this insolent bravado and this swift sureness of eye and muscle, she knew the small weapon to be a ridiculous and utterly insufficient plaything.
Must he further puzzle over the insolent whims of a captious girl?
Barnes was commanded, with Garrett and Jerome, to make a public acknowledgment of his errors; and to apologize especially for his insolentlanguage to Gardiner.
So long as the tide was in their favour, the Protestants indulged in insolent excesses, which provoked, and almost justified the anger with which they were regarded.
Frequently they were the first to suffer from the demoralization of the villagers: theft and insolent wantonness were willingly practised against those whose indignant looks and solemn admonitions had heretofore overawed them.
Jean, thus addressed, changed color rapidly, and then was furious with herself, for she caught Miss Stuart's eyes fixed on her with insolent directness.
It was not the custom of the Chief of the MacLeans to pay attention to the demands of a threatening and insolent beggar.
As for Moore, he was a mutineer, and an insolent rogue besides, who had stirred up trouble in the crew, and nothing would have been said to any other skipper than Kidd for shooting him or running him through.
Already in the previous Book it was stated that the Phæacians at first "dwelt near the insolent Cyclops," from whom they had to make the removal to their present island on account of violence done them by their neighbors.
Moreover the sleep of Ulysses, just at the nick of destiny, showed an internal weakness; he became careless, almost insolent under such circumstances; he manifested a similar trait to that which led to the curse of the Cyclops.
Thus a civil polity begins by getting away from "the insolent Cyclops" or savages.
Is it the result of dense unconsciousness or of the insolent irony with which he regards his timid brother-in-law, at whose little army, on the occasion of a visit to Athens, he scoffed so disdainfully?
They fall in thousands, these Turks, more exposed to shrapnel fire than our own men; nevertheless they fight reluctantly; they fight because they have been deceived and because insolent foreigners drive them on with their revolvers.
As the captain, sitting alone in no very enviable frame of mind, passed him afterwards upon the road, he could not help remarking to himself how old and bowed the insolent fellow looked.
You lie, insolent woman," returned the other; "and judge others by yourself.
I will caution him not to behave in a lordly or insolent manner, even to the lowest servants.
But the Indians became insolent and began to kill our cattle, when we moved over, later in the fall, and settled down at the mouth of Gold creek and began to prospect.
Sitting Bull was very insolent to the officers, and made some threats against some members of the force, but said that the visitors would leave the following day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insolent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
