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Adjectives (3)
flip, insolent, impudent
adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
Fuzzynyms (30)
discourteous
adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"
irreverent
adj. showing lack of due respect or veneration; "irreverent scholars mocking sacred things"; "noisy irreverent tourists"
sarcastic
adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
offensive
adj. causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
arrogant, chesty, self-important
adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"
imperious, masterful
adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"
overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
brash, cheeky, nervy
adj. offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"
critical
adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"
belittling, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, slighting
adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"
unmannered, ill-mannered, rude, unmannerly
adj. socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
Synonyms (15)
withering, devastating, annihilating
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
insulting, scornful, disdainful, contemptuous
adj. expressing extreme contempt
contumelious
adj. arrogantly insolent
jeering, derisive, derisory, mocking
adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
impious, undutiful
adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"
undeferential
adj. not showing courteous respect
Antonyms (1)
respectful
adj. full of or exhibiting respect; "respectful behavior"; "a respectful glance"
snotty-nosed
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