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Adjective: insolent  in-su-lunt
  1. Marked by casual disrespect
    "the student was kept in for insolent behaviour";
    - impudent, snotty-nosed, flip
     
  2. Unrestrained by convention or propriety
    "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress";
    - audacious, barefaced, bodacious [N. Amer, informal], bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced

See also: disrespectful, unashamed

Encyclopedia: Insolent