insolente
insolent ; brash ; cheeky ; petulant ; uncouth ; sassy ; flamer ; brazen ; impudent ; short ; short-tempered ; off-hand [offhand] ; saucy ; pert ; stroppy ; in a strop ; bolshie [boshy] ; mouthy ; forward ; quick-tempered ; shirty [shirtier -comp., shirtiest -sup.,] ; ill-tempered.
He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.
Caslon rejected the brash contrast of the later Dutch founts, and produced types that were without serious blemish, but also without much life.
The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.
His manner was more animated, but not in the usual petulant sense: he even seemed years younger.
All the writers chosen characterized eastern Europe throughout the 18th century as uncouth and backward.
This series of personal essays are at various times sassy, profound, superficial, and maddening.
Like other technologies, the Internet is vulnerable to misuse by hostile individuals (flamers), sexual predators, and pornographers.
They accepted the government's brazen lies stating that Ramón Colás, the co-founder of the library movement, has not been arrested as a prisoner of conscience.
The Library Association is impudent in suggesting that it will impose sanctions on those who fail to keep abreast of developments in librarianship.
He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
Singers and other entertainers in Burma have been warned to cut out saucy behaviour and be neat and tidy or face the consequences.
He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.
My 11-year-old daughter has become really stroppy and prone to emotional outbursts, swearing at us and acting in a way that's completely unlike her.
Do you ever get in a strop or behave like a toddler having a tantrum in public?.
I showed one of the staff the video and he got quite bolshie with me, as my taping her was, according to him, a breach of her human rights.
The wife of a military officer serving overseas told detectives she fatally shot her teenage son because he was 'mouthy'.
Luckily the girl didn't seem affronted by Christina forward attitude, but rather was very friendly about the whole thing.
Lawson was a quick-tempered young woman but she also had a good heart and liked to dance when the mood struck her.
I'm at a shirty tiredness level where some chicken & then a good nap is preferable over sex.
Ill-tempered girls were also twice as likely as even-tempered girls to be divorced women at midlife (26% vs. 12%).
de un modo insolente
defiantly
'This is an order then,' she said defiantly, 'even though I'm supposedly in charge of pages'.
