Adjective: insolent in-su-lunt
- Marked by casual disrespect
"the student was kept in for insolent behaviour";
- impudent, snotty-nosed, flip
- 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