adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

adj. 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

adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"

adj. showing lack of due respect or veneration; "irreverent scholars mocking sacred things"; "noisy irreverent tourists"

adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

adj. causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

adj. offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"

adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

adj. causing to decrease in importance or value; "detractive influences on the volume of investment"

adj. socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. expressing extreme contempt

adj. offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"

adj. excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"

adj. making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert

adj. expressing extreme contempt

adj. arrogantly insolent

adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"

adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"

adj. not showing courteous respect

adj. feeling no shame; "a shameless imposter"; "an unblushing apologist for fascism"

adj. not embarrassed; "a tinseled charm and unabashed sentimentality"- Jerome Stone; "an unembarrassed greeting as if nothing untoward had happened"

adj. full of or exhibiting respect; "respectful behavior"; "a respectful glance"