Effrontery *** & Affront

effrontery







Y

[i-fruhn-tuh-ree]

厚顏無恥;放肆



D



–noun

1. shameless or impudent [im-pyuh-duhnt] boldness; barefaced audacity: She had the effrontery to ask for two [free samples]. 

2. an act or instance of this.  



—Synonyms 

1. impertinence (不切題), impudence, cheek.





C



affront (n., v.), effrontery (n.) 

   

The verb affront means "to insult, to offend deliberately"; 

the noun means "insult” and takes to or, less frequently, of: I couldn’t forgive his affront to [of] his mother. 



Effrontery is "impudence, boldness, audacity, presumption": She then had the effrontery to ask a [favor].





　In a wholly implausible scene of almost Pythonesque absurdity, Lorenzo is tortured in Tomas' dining room and signs a document confessing to [being the offspring of monkeys]. Given the nature of the Inquisition, it seems unlikely such effrontery would have brought with [it] no consequences for Tomas and his retinue, as it does in the pic.



see affront



retinue effervescent sumptuous



obsequious sycophantic

effrontery shameless, impudence, presumption



impudent

imprudent









　

The efforts of these dedicated officers to rid their country of Hitler remain one of the heroic stories of that war. But my good friend Roger Friedman of Fox TV and even the saucy Radar magazine keep going at Tom for his failure in getting "Valkyrie" made against all odds.

They write about this as if it was a vulgar horrid idea in the first place, an affront [to] serious filmmaking.