Effrontery (noun)
e-frun-ter-ee
Insolent or impertinent behaviour.
Late 17th century from French effronterie, based on late Latin effrons, effront- ‘shameless, barefaced’, from ex- ‘out’ + frons ‘forehead’.
Example sentences
“He actually had the effrontery to challenge the decision.”
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