Example sentences for: effrontery

How can you use “effrontery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • . 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • "I'm not sure Microsoft's effrontery is that holy.


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