adjective
- Marked by casual disrespect.
- usage: "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
- synonyms: impudent, snotty-nosed, flip
- Unrestrained by convention or propriety."an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress- Bertrand Russell
- synonyms: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced
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