effrontery

noun

1. 厚颜无耻的行为；傲慢鲁莽的举止
   behaviour that is confident and very rude, without any feeling of shame

1. N-UNCOUNT 厚颜无耻;放肆;粗鲁
   Effrontery is behaviour that is bold, rude, or disrespectful.
   1. One could only gasp at the sheer effrontery of the man.
      那人十足的厚颜无耻让人们吃惊得无话可说。

1. One could only gasp at the sheer effrontery of the man.
   那人十足的厚颜无耻让人们吃惊得无话可说。
2. Why are you showing such effrontery?
   你为什么表现的如此放肆？
3. Her total makeover has generated the Internet meme: "If Sister Lotus can lose weight, how do you have the effrontery to stay fat?"
   她的蜕变引起网友强烈反响：“连芙蓉姐姐都减肥成功了，你还好意思胖下去吗？”
4. Effrontery is a disgrace.
   无耻也就是可耻。
5. A cynic would take one look at the chromic effrontery of the S-class's new grille and think: China.
   愤世嫉俗之人会看一眼S级新进气格栅的铬合金装饰条，心里想到：中国。
6. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
   只有生来以自我为中心的人才会厚颜无耻、持之以恒地去写散文。
7. He admired the effrontery with which she bargained.
   他挺佩服她讨价还价的那股泼辣劲。
8. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery.
   流言蜚语不再是无聊恶毒之徒的资源，而是成为一种奋力和无耻追求的行当。
9. In France, my dear sir, half such a piece of effrontery as that would cause you to be quickly despatched to Toulon for five years, for change of air.
   在法国，我最最亲爱的爸爸啊，只需做一半这种程度的手脚，他们就会把您送到土伦去呼吸五年监狱里的空气的呀。
10. For them to front an evil with plain speech is to be guilty of effrontery.
    对他们来说，与魔鬼开诚布公的讲话是一种厚颜无耻的罪过。
11. They had the effrontery to tell me that I was a real dag.
    他们厚颜无耻地说我没有品位。
12. How can he have had the effrontery to say "piss off!" to you?
    他怎么会这样无耻，竟然对你“滚开！”呢？
13. They protected themselves from the burning sun with a black umbrella and were quite oblivious to the effrontery of the people who watched them pass by.
    她们都擎着黑伞以躲避灼人的阳光，但对同样灼人的路边恬不知耻的观客的目光，她们毫不在意，从容走过。
14. In the Imperial Japanese Fleet it was suicidal effrontery.
    在日本帝国舰队中，这是自杀性的胆大妄为。
15. He arrived late, was silent all evening and then had the effrontery to complain that I looked bored!
    他姗姗来迟，整个晚上一声不响，然后竟有脸抱怨我看起来很无聊。
16. The effrontery of his deceptions inside and outside the conference room could be enraging.
    他在会议室内外放肆的欺骗手段简直令人怒火中烧。
17. He had the effrontery to suggest that she enjoyed being unhappy.
    他无耻地大胆暗示，她喜欢不幸。
18. He has achieved this partly through sheer verbal effrontery, as in his badmouthing of George bush.
    他有今天的成就，部分功劳是他那完全口头的厚颜无耻行为，正如他恶意诋毁美国乔治？布什总统。
19. That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis.
    蔑克里斯这种不可毁灭的内在的厚颜无耻，便是使男子们憎恶他的原因。
20. At this point I expected to have to quell a revolt, or at least quieten things down while those who objected to this effrontery walked out.
    那一刻，我预期自己将不得不平息人们的反驳，或者至少在那些反对这种放肆行为的人起身退场之时，让会场平静下来。

noun

1. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
   1. he despised them for their presumptuousness

   Synonym:    presumptionpresumptuousnessassumption