Meaning & Definition of Insolent in English

1. Marked by casual disrespect

• "A flip answer to serious question"

• "The student was kept in for impudent behavior"

2. Unrestrained by convention or propriety

• "An audacious trick to pull"

• "A barefaced hypocrite"

• "The most bodacious display of tourism this side of anaheim"- los angeles times

• "Bald-faced lies"

• "Brazen arrogance"

• "The modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- bertrand russell