| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal : brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY. 2. The quality or state of feeling bitter: acrimony, bitterness, embitterment, rancor, rancorousness, resentfulness, resentment, virulence, virulency. See FEELINGS.
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