insolently

Adverb

insolently (comparative more insolently, superlative most insolently)

1. In an insolent manner.
   • "Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
   • the dastardly man who insolently compared the flights of a swan to the waddlings of the domestic duck1896, George Birbeck Norman Hill, Talks about Autographs, page 81