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Definition of Effronteries
1. effrontery [n] - See also: effrontery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effronteries
Literary usage of Effronteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"To thank Him for Charles would have been to thank Him for Cleveland and Buckingham;
for the pension from the French king, and all sorts of effronteries and ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... quarterly reviews, and defamed him with an arrogant stupidity, and a sneaking
injustice, unparalleled in the effronteries and fooleries of criticism. ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"Hast dared to entertain in thy muddled imagination these infamies and effronteries?
Out of my presence, monster of nature, magazine of lies, storehouse of ..."
4. Recollections by John Morley (1917)
"... unchangeable despair and lacerating irony; the transitory effusions of German
Weltschmerz, or the effronteries of Zarathustra. Lucretius stands alone in ..."
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