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Example sentences for: effrontery
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It is even less comprehensible how a modern researcher could accept it and have the effrontery to promulgate it.
Cape dared suggest he travelled by train conjures up an image of Cape (“his” publisher) having the effrontery to put forward the theory that the absent “he” absconded by rail.
When she cottons (almost instantly) to the fact that Brosnan is her art thief, she toys with him, happy with the chase and entertained by his effrontery.
According to the EFL Gazette [June 1988], a judge in Birmingham, England, was outraged that a Pakistani, resident in Britain for 23 years, had the effrontery to be so ignorant of English as to need an interpreter in court; he sentenced the culprit to two years' probation with the condition that he learn the language.
. On yet another occasion I had to write to a colleague by the name of Robert who had had the effrontery to criticize me, and I wanted to do so in a firm but studiedly polite tone.