effrontery
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tə noun, plural ef·fron·ter·ies.
1.
shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity: She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples.
2.
an act or instance of this.
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| —n , pl -ies | |
| shameless or insolent boldness; impudent presumption; audacity; temerity | |
| [C18: from French effronterie, from Old French esfront barefaced, shameless, from Late Latin effrons, literally: putting forth one's forehead; see | |
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Word Origin & History
effrontery
1715, from Fr. effronterie, from effronte "shameless," from O.Fr. esfronte, probably from L.L. effrontem (nom. effrons) "barefaced," from L. ex- "out" + frontem (nom. frons) "brow" (see front). L. frontus had a sense of "ability to blush," but the lit. sense of effrontery
has usually been taken to be "putting forth the forehead."
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Example sentences
But not without sundry twinges of impotent rebellion against the mild effrontery of this unaccountable scrivener.
This effrontery has become part of his prissy jerky-boy routine.
The naive effrontery of this book is more pitiful than ridiculous.
Abel dealt with the innocents, among whom he lived and schemed, with a kind of gentle effrontery.
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