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effrontery

/ɪˈfɹʌntəɹi/

effrontery noun: insolent and shameless audacity.

Noun

effrontery (countable and uncountable, plural effronteries)

  1. (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
    • We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
    • Let not the Englishman in Scotland believe that the undoffed hat, the curt reply, the apparent assumption of equality, all spring from deliberate effrontery, and are wholly beyond the reach of southern influence.1859, The Christian Remembrancer, volumes 37-38, page 250
  2. (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
    • Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.
    • All was going as planned until the bag hit a snag and failed to surround the entire nest. This effrontery was too much. The wasps exploded off the nest at me.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 92

effrontery meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

effrontery in Urdu

بےغیرتی, ڈھٹائی, دیدہ دلیری, ہٹ, ضد

effrontery in Bengali

ধৃষ্টতা, নির্লজ্জ সাহস, ঔদ্ধত্যপূর্ণ আচরণ

effrontery in Malayalam

impertinence, impudence, cheek
ഔദ്ധത്യം, അവിനയം, മര്യാദയില്ലായ്മ, കടുകത, കടുകത്വം, കടുങ്കത

effrontery in Kannada

ಔದ್ಧತ್ಯ, ಧಾರ್ಷ್ಟ್ಯ, ನಿರ್ಲಜ್ಜ ವ್ಯವಹಾರ, ಉದ್ಧಟತನ, ಮಾನಗೆಟ್ಟತನ, ಆರ‍್ಪು

Forms of effrontery

pluraleffronteries

Origin of effrontery

From late 17th century French effronterie, from effronté (“shameless, insolent”), from Old French esfronté, from Vulgar Latin *exfrontātus. Compare Latin effrōns (“barefaced”), from the prefix ex- (“from”) + frōns (“forehead”) (English: front). By surface analysis, ef- + front + -er + -y.

Words formed from effrontery

Questions about effrontery

What does effrontery mean?
Effrontery means insolent and shameless audacity.
What is effrontery in Urdu?
Effrontery in Urdu is بےغیرتی, ڈھٹائی, دیدہ دلیری. See Effrontery meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is effrontery?
Effrontery is a noun.
How do you pronounce effrontery?
Effrontery is pronounced /ɪˈfɹʌntəɹi/.
What is the plural of effrontery?
The plural of effrontery is effronteries.

Words near effrontery in the dictionary

  1. effrenation
  2. effront
  3. effronted
  4. effronteries
  5. effronterous
  6. effrontery
  7. effronting
  8. effrontit
  9. effronts
  10. effrontuous
  11. effs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: effrontery (page history and authors); effrontery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); effrontery (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); effrontery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); effrontery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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