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effrontery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /ɪˈfɹʌntəɹi/
  • /ɛˈfɹʌntəɹi/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  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:

Forms

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Deriveds

effronterous

Relateds

affront

Translations (45)

ko 뻔뻔스러움 (insolent and shameless audacity) · sv fräckhet (insolent and shameless audacity) · de Dreistigkeit (insolent and shameless audacity) · is ósvífni (insolent and shameless audacity) · sh besramlje (insolent and shameless audacity) · ru наха́льство (insolent and shameless audacity) · scn tuschizza (insolent and shameless audacity) · hy անամոթություն (insolent and shameless audacity) · pt desfaçatez (insolent and shameless audacity) · es desvergüenza (insolent and shameless audacity) · el θράσος (insolent and shameless audacity) · de Frechheit (insolent and shameless audacity) · it sfrontatezza (insolent and shameless audacity) · fi röyhkeys (insolent and shameless audacity) · fr effronterie (insolent and shameless audacity) · bg безочливост (insolent and shameless audacity) · ota پیشانی (insolent and shameless audacity) · ja 厚顔無恥 (insolent and shameless audacity) · hu arcátlanság (insolent and shameless audacity) · he חוצפה (insolent and shameless audacity) · pt descaramento (insolent and shameless audacity) · hy լկտիություն (insolent and shameless audacity) · ro nerușinare (insolent and shameless audacity) · fi julkeus (insolent and shameless audacity) · sv oförskämdhet (insolent and shameless audacity) · ru бессты́дство (insolent and shameless audacity) · ru на́глость (insolent and shameless audacity) · ro sfruntare (insolent and shameless audacity) · cmn 厚顏無恥 /厚颜无耻 (insolent and shameless audacity) · ro insolență (insolent and shameless audacity) · nl onbeschaamdheid (insolent and shameless audacity) · bg наха́лство (insolent and shameless audacity) · sh besramnost (insolent and shameless audacity) · es descaro (insolent and shameless audacity) · fi hävyttömyys (insolent and shameless audacity) · ota یوز (insolent and shameless audacity) · is óskammfeilni (insolent and shameless audacity) · ga neamhnáire (insolent and shameless audacity) · es desfachatez (insolent and shameless audacity) · de Unverschämtheit (insolent and shameless audacity) · pt acinte (insolent and shameless audacity) · ru беззасте́нчивость (insolent and shameless audacity) · hy լրբություն (insolent and shameless audacity) · sh bestidnost (insolent and shameless audacity) · hy անպատկառություն (insolent and shameless audacity)