If you say that someone is being insolent, you mean they are being rude to someone they ought to be respectful to.
例句
...her insolent stare...她无礼的瞪视The officer stamped his boot. 'Don't be insolent with me, mademoiselle.'军官跺跺靴子:“小姐,别对我无礼。”
英汉词典释义
adj.
粗野的;无礼的;侮慢的
an insolent stare无礼的凝视At these insolent words her anger rose.听了这些傲慢无礼的话,她冒火了。His insolent manner really got my blood up.他那专横的态度把我的肺都气炸了。The bandit bared his teeth in an insolent smile.那匪徒龇牙咧嘴地狞笑。Well,he had shown the insolent fellow the door.哼,他已经把那个傲慢无礼的家伙赶走了。
n.
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. marked by casual disrespect;
"a flip answer to serious question""the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
2. 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"bold-faced lies""brazen arrogance""the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell