| 词汇 | effrontery |
| 释义 | effrontery noun[ U ] formaluk /ɪˈfrʌn.tər.i/ us /efˈrʌn.tər.i/ extreme rudeness without any ability to understand that your behaviour is not acceptable to other people: 厚颜无耻;放肆 He was silent all through the meal and then had the effrontery to complain that I looked bored!在饭桌上他自始至终一言不发，到头来却有脸抱怨我一副百无聊赖的样子。 Synonym presumption Rude and cheeky backchat cheekily cheekiness cheeky churlishly churlishness coarse-grained cocky fruity indelicate neanderthal obnoxiously obnoxiousness offensively offensiveness pertly sass unceremonious unpleasant unprintable Examples of effronteryeffrontery He scoffs at the effrontery of the bridal party, whose members put up a formidable show of might, as if they were military guards. The former she roundly criticised not only for their reform programme but also for their effrontery in demanding it. His effrontery, however, quailed before a disease so earnest and energetic as pericarditis, and he requested that some regular physician should be called in to treat the malady. It did not, unless it refers to the era of sheer effrontery. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The word "effrontery" seems to me the mildest term by which such action can be described. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is nothing more or less than a piece of effrontery to make this suggestion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I pause only to comment on the extraordinary effrontery of that statement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Upon what possible basis do those bureaucrats across the sea have the effrontery to reduce the award that a judge and justice thought was appropriate? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He had the effrontery to claim that the few words that he used relatively casually at the end of his speech met the problems. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has the effrontery to say that the scheme which we have introduced is not perfect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is why in this field nobody had the effrontery to say that we should pay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How has he the impertinence and the effrontery to complain about our budget settlement when we have knocked two-thirds off our contribution? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It might be so interpreted by some people but it can also be seen as a piece of effrontery to the staff. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what is happening—that is total effrontery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Effrontery is a small word to use in regard to language such as that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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