Crossword-Solution: EFFRONTERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Effrontery | n. | Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance. |
We have 55 clues for the answer “EFFRONTERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Disrespect ruined entry offer (10) | 1 answer |
| Boldness, and a hint to five long puzzle answers | 1 answer |
| Audacious behavior | 1 answer |
| Brazen boldness | 2 answers |
| presumptuousness | 3 answers |
| brazenness | 14 answers |
| brashness | 17 answers |
| supposition | 19 answers |
| superbity | 19 answers |
| hubris | 20 answers |
| Morgue | 20 answers |
| Indiscretion | 21 answers |
| Hauteur | 23 answers |
| Temerity | 23 answers |
| forwardness | 24 answers |
| Haughtiness | 25 answers |
| complacency | 25 answers |
| Egoism | 27 answers |
| Narcissism | 27 answers |
| High tone? | 30 answers |
| Impertinence | 31 answers |
| Impudence | 33 answers |
| Contumely | 35 answers |
| Nerve | 35 answers |
| hardihood | 38 answers |
| Sneer? | 41 answers |
| loftiness | 41 answers |
| BRASS ___ | 42 answers |
| Insolence | 44 answers |
| imprudence | 44 answers |
| Backbone | 46 answers |
| boldness | 46 answers |
| Chutzpah | 47 answers |
| Guts | 48 answers |
| Disrespect | 48 answers |
| Audacity | 49 answers |
| rudeness | 49 answers |
| Arrogance | 50 answers |
| Scorn | 50 answers |
| Conceit | 50 answers |
| assumption | 51 answers |
| Defiance | 54 answers |
| Impropriety | 54 answers |
| Disdain | 55 answers |
| Gall | 57 answers |
| Assurance | 57 answers |
| Confidence | 58 answers |
| incorrectness | 60 answers |
| Contempt | 65 answers |
| Cheek | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with EFFRONTERY (5)
Lily had the effrontery to come out with, “She sang the song of Home, Sweet Home, the song that touched my heart.” But this did not surprise Thea; as Ray said later in the evening, “the cards had been stacked against her from the beginning.” The next issue of the _Gleam_ correctly stated that “unquestionably the honors of the evening must be accorded to Miss Lily Fisher.” The Baptists had everything their own way.
Morison, was making his task an extremely difficult one—it was that quality of innate goodness and cleanness which is a good girl’s stoutest bulwark and protection—an impregnable barrier that only degeneracy has the effrontery to assail.
The matter was immensely serious for all the parties concerned, but there was in the manner of his answer such a cheerful effrontery that I had to bite my lips in order not to laugh.
Scores of times I nerved myself almost to the point of asking her, but never quite reached the necessary pitch of effrontery.
When, two days later, he appeared before the King at Winchelsea and reported the outcome of his mission, Henry raged and stormed, swearing by all the saints in the calendar that Norman of Torn should hang for his effrontery before the snow flew again.
Quotes with EFFRONTERY (3)
It is mathematics which reveals every genuine truth, for it knows every hidden secret, and bears the key to every subtlety of letters; whoever then has the effrontery to study physics while neglecting mathematics, should know from the start that he will never make his entry into the portals of wisdom.
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape — the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes — we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off his head immediately, and stick it on a pike!'Gennosuke could hardly believe his ears. Such an insult to Irako Seigen was unwarranted. It was pride. For Gennosuke, Irako Seigen was pride itself. Takamasa Saegusa: 'Fujiki Gennosuke! It is the way of the samurai to take the h…
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2003–2018).