affrontery

Vivian described Van Koutrik's request for a job with the British army as a "piece of brazen affrontery".

MI5 files reveal details of British agent's wartime treachery 2012

When subjected to some affrontery, he slowly pulls them off and uses them to slap the face of the offender.

A Tip of the Helmet: Taintless in 2010 BikeSnobNYC 2010

When he got no response from his verbal attempts, actually poking her foot with his toe so that she looked up at him in shock and affrontery before she could stop herself.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

The Englishman sniffs at the affrontery of the fly and pushes his beer away in disgust.

Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

Eartha Kitt could not afford to buy the front-page publicity that her affrontery reaped.

Danny Miller: Eartha Kitt, CIA Target 2009

Apparently these warmongers have had the affrontery to set up a mobile dental hospital and clinic where the terrorist population of Gaza may have been treated.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Why is it seen as affrontery to point this out in a country that (for better and for worse) generally regards being "rich" as a good thing -- a likely imprimatur of success and competence.

MSNBC On Populist Edwards: "Multi-Millionaire Candidate" 2009

Yet Moore has the utter affrontery to claim that some kind of collective unconscious carries it all forward 150thousand years, so that Bob Dylan picks ‘All along the watchtower’ out of the ether, and later Jimi Hendrix covers it.

Battlestar Galactica’s Last Half-Hour: An Epic Failure Of Storytelling « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

Apparently these warmongers have had the affrontery to set up a mobile dental hospital and clinic where the terrorist population of Gaza may have been treated.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Sorry, but the FISA bill does not even come close to the level of constitutional affrontery that you have elevated it to being.

Why Obama's Support For FISA Cave-In Is Such A Downer 2009