Effrontery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Effrontery \Ef*front"er*y\, n.; pl. {Effronteries}. [F.
     effronterie, fr. effront['e] shameless, fr. L. effrons,
     -ontis, putting forth the forehead, i. e., barefaced,
     shameless; ex + frons the forehead. See {Front}.]
     Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the
     bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness;


     shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. --Bancroft.
  
     Syn: Impudence; sauciness. See {Impudence}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  effrontery
       n : audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right
           to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" [syn: {presumption},
            {presumptuousness}, {assumption}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "effrontery":
     arrogance, assurance, audacity, boldness, brashness, brass,
     brazenness, bumptiousness, cheek, confidence, contumely, crust,
     face, gall, hardihood, hubris, impertinence, impudence, insolence,
     nerve, obtrusiveness, overweening, overweeningness, presumption,
     presumptuousness, procacity, pushiness, self-assurance,
     self-confidence, temerity, uppishness, uppityness