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EFFRONTERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does effrontery mean?
• EFFRONTERY (noun)
The noun EFFRONTERY has 1 sense:
1. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
Familiarity information: EFFRONTERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
assumption; effrontery; presumption; presumptuousness
Context example:
he despised them for their presumptuousness
Hypernyms ("effrontery" is a kind of...):
audaciousness; audacity (aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "effrontery"):
uppishness; uppityness (assumption of airs beyond one's station)
Context examples
He is quite young and of no descent, but he has made his way by his cool effrontery, his natural taste, and his extravagance of speech.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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