effrontery

The word “effrontery” has 4 syllables: ef-fro-nter-y

It's pronounced as /ɪˈfrʌntəri/


What is synonym and antonym for effrontery?

In the thesaurus, “effrontery” has 5 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for effrontery along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for effrontery

Antonyms for effrontery

  • bashfulness
  • diffidence
  • hesitancy
  • manners
  • modesty
  • shyness
  • timidity

Meanings of effrontery

  • noun
    1. Insolent and shameless audacity.
    2. An act of insolent and shameless audacity.

Example Sentences

  • His effrontery knew no bounds as he brazenly lied to everyone about his achievements.
  • It takes a special kind of effrontery to cut in line and then pretend not to notice the glares of those waiting patiently.
  • The politician's effrontery in denying his involvement in the scandal was met with widespread disbelief.
  • I was stunned by her audacious effrontery when she asked for a raise despite consistently underperforming.
  • The sheer effrontery of his request left us speechless, wondering how someone could be so shameless.

On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to effrontery, such as: arrogance, audacity, bashfulness, diffidence, gall, hesitancy, manners.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • audacity
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  • will
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face

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  • imposture
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  • incivility
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  • make a stand
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  • mouth
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  • nerve
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  • overconfidence
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  • rictus
  • rim
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  • robe
  • rudeness
  • run into
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  • sass
  • satisfaction
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  • scoff
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faces

  • Potemkin villages
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  • accost
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  • adjoins
  • affectations
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  • air
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  • dignity
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  • ducks
  • effects
  • effrontery
  • eggs
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  • engages
  • enshrouds
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  • experience
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  • eyeball
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  • facet
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  • fight
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  • gall
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  • glower
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  • go up against
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  • grimace
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  • grins
  • growls
  • guise
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  • guys
  • heads
  • hints
  • hominids
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  • honor
  • human beings
  • humanoids
  • humans
  • image
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  • impertinence
  • implications
  • impostures
  • impressions
  • impudence
  • incloses
  • individuals
  • insinuations
  • invests
  • kisser
  • kissers
  • laps
  • level
  • light
  • likenesses
  • line
  • lineaments
  • lives
  • look
  • looks
  • lours
  • lowers
  • make a stand
  • make-belief
  • make-believe
  • makeup
  • manners
  • mantles
  • map
  • margins
  • mask
  • masks
  • masquerades
  • meet
  • meets
  • men
  • miens
  • mortals
  • moues
  • mouths
  • mows
  • mug
  • mugs
  • names
  • neighbors
  • obverse
  • oppose
  • opposes
  • outbraves
  • outfaces
  • outsides
  • outwards
  • overlay
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  • overlook
  • overlooks
  • overspreads
  • paint
  • pans
  • parties
  • patinae
  • patinas
  • people
  • personages
  • personalities
  • physiognomies
  • physiognomy
  • plaster
  • polish
  • poses
  • pout
  • pouts
  • presences
  • presentation
  • prestige
  • presumption
  • pretences
  • pretenses
  • profile
  • pusses
  • redecorate
  • refinish
  • remodel
  • repels
  • representations
  • reputation
  • resemblances
  • resist
  • resists
  • rictuses
  • rims
  • risk
  • rivals
  • robes
  • run into
  • scoffs
  • scouts
  • scowl
  • scowls
  • seeming
  • seemings
  • self-respect
  • selves
  • semblance
  • semblances
  • shapes
  • sheathe
  • sheathes
  • sheaths
  • shells
  • shingle
  • show
  • showing
  • shows
  • shrouds
  • side
  • sides
  • silhouette
  • simpers
  • simulacrum
  • simulations
  • skin
  • skins
  • skirts
  • slobs
  • smiles
  • smirk
  • smirks
  • smooth
  • snarls
  • sneers
  • snoots
  • social position
  • somebodies
  • sons of man
  • sorts
  • souls
  • specimens
  • square off
  • squinches
  • stand
  • standing
  • stands
  • stands up to
  • stare
  • stares
  • stiffs
  • stomach
  • submit
  • suffer
  • suggestions
  • surface
  • surfaces
  • surrounds
  • sustain
  • swallow
  • swathes
  • take
  • take it
  • take on
  • take the bull by the horns
  • takes on
  • tell off
  • things
  • tolerate
  • top
  • tops
  • touches
  • veil
  • veils
  • veneer
  • veneers
  • venture
  • visage
  • visages
  • watch
  • wights
  • winces
  • withstand
  • withstands
  • wraps

gall

  • abrade
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • alienation
  • anger
  • animosity
  • animus
  • annoy
  • antagonism
  • antagonize
  • antipathy
  • arrogance
  • assurance
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • back talk
  • bad blood
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  • bait
  • ballyrag
  • bark
  • bedevil
  • bite
  • bitterness
  • blood feud
  • bother
  • brashness
  • brass
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  • brazenness
  • break down
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  • bug
  • bullyrag
  • burn
  • chafe
  • cheek
  • cheekiness
  • chew
  • chide
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • cockiness
  • conceit
  • confidence
  • conflict
  • coolness
  • corrade
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  • crust
  • crust cynicism
  • decompose
  • devil
  • disaffection
  • discomfort
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  • discourteousness
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  • disquiet
  • disrespect
  • dissolve
  • distress
  • disturb
  • eat
  • effrontery
  • enflame
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • erase
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  • estrangement
  • exasperate
  • excoriate
  • exercise
  • face
  • feud
  • file
  • flay
  • fray
  • frazzle
  • fret
  • friction
  • frost
  • get
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  • grate
  • graze
  • grind
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  • grudge
  • guts
  • hagride
  • harass
  • hardihood
  • harry
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  • hate
  • hatred
  • haughtiness
  • heckle
  • hone
  • hostility
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • impertinence
  • impoliteness
  • impudence
  • incense
  • incivility
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • inflame
  • infuriate
  • inhospitableness
  • insolence
  • insult
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  • itch
  • jaundice
  • loathing
  • madden
  • malevolence
  • malice
  • malignancy
  • malignity
  • miff
  • nag
  • nark
  • nerve
  • nerviness
  • nettle
  • nibble
  • offend
  • outrage
  • overbearance
  • overconfidence
  • peel
  • peeve
  • persecute
  • pertness
  • perturb
  • pester
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  • plague
  • pomposity
  • presumption
  • presumptuousness
  • provoke
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  • rancor
  • rankle
  • rasp
  • reduce
  • rile
  • roil
  • rouse
  • rub
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  • rub the wrong way
  • rudeness
  • ruffle
  • sandblast
  • sandpaper
  • sanguinity
  • sass
  • sauce
  • sauciness
  • score
  • scour
  • scrape
  • scratch
  • scuff
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • self-importance
  • sharpen
  • shave
  • skin
  • spite
  • spitefulness
  • strain
  • swagger
  • swash
  • tease
  • temerity
  • tension
  • torment
  • trouble
  • undo
  • unfriendliness
  • ungraciousness
  • unhinge
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vendetta
  • venom
  • vex
  • vindictiveness
  • virulence
  • vitriol
  • wear
  • wear on
  • wear out
  • whet
  • worry

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