Effronteries [noun]

Without real and ingenious effrontery there is not doing anything at court.

She had the effrontery to hold the baby up, with his little naked legs kicking in Tanqueray's face.

How dared he have the effrontery to intrude his unclean carcass betwixt the wind and our nobility?

The old Bohemian was there, in a humble attitude, little conformable with the effrontery natural to his race.

Some of the senators doubted that the President had such "daring effrontery" as to ask for such power.

“You have a very imperfect idea of my resources, and none at all of my effrontery,” replied Alexander.

The place was quickly retaken, but the effrontery of the attempt from a neutral port showed the insecurity of the conditions.

Many of the officers were assaulted and robbed with the greatest effrontery.

If Spivak intimately knew the man—but he did not and the effrontery disarmed him.

It is truly amazing that the Law had the effrontery to turn upon its divine Author, and that without a show of right.