How to Use effrontery in a Sentence

effrontery

noun
  • Miller, putting a spin of effrontery on every line, is the perfect actor to play this corkscrew superhero.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 June 2023
  • Thompson, skilled at both effrontery and anxiety, mines that tension brilliantly.
    — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
  • Others simply denounced Schutz for the effrontery of addressing the subject of black trauma.
    — Richard Cohen, The Mercury News, 5 June 2017
  • His crowded, unmasked political rallies were reckless acts of effrontery.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Further, older workers, accustomed to the parental role, may reflexively offer advice to younger bosses who chafe at the effrontery.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
  • But in the ’80s, Murphy, with his sleek swagger and bedroom eyes, was the comedian as rock-star pin-up, and that smolder of glamour was built into the effrontery of his act.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
  • What wrapped it all together was the insistence that Obama’s effrontery in bypassing Congress was the primary issue.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The weather in Springfield was gusty and frigid, and most people wore parkas and winter hats, but some of the younger attendees, hopped up on adrenaline and public displays of effrontery, got by with hoodies and track pants.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2020
  • In an effrontery to democracy, the Supreme Court just legalized partisan gerrymandering.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 13 July 2019
  • The first major payoff, like subsequent depredations, was both complex—involving a thicket of shell corporations and offshore money-laundering entrepôts—and crude, in view of the fraud’s effrontery.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • In an act of intellectual effrontery that recalls Karl Marx, Wengrow and Graeber use this insight to overthrow all existing dogma about humankind—to reimagine, in short, everything.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
  • Bergman, who romanced his leading ladies and strip mined his personal demons for material, was hardly the least self-involved of European auteurs, and Hansen-Løve has fittingly responded with her own teasing display of meta-effrontery.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021

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