effrontery

noun

I am amazed at the effrontery with which the previous speaker lauds himself:

impudence, impertinence, cheek, insolence, cheekiness, audacity, temerity, brazenness, forwardness, front, presumption, nerve, gall, pertness, boldness, shamelessness, impoliteness, disrespect, bad manners, unmannerliness, overfamiliarity;

answering back, talking back;

informal brass, brass neck, neck, face, lip, mouth, cockiness;

British, informal sauce;

Scottish, informal snash;

North American, informal sass, sassiness, nerviness, chutzpah, back talk;

informal , dated hide;

British, informal , dated crust, backchat;

rare malapertness, contumely, procacity, assumption.

▷antonyms timidity.

□ have the effrontery

one councilor had the effrontery to suggest that 80,000 objectors were an insufficient number of people to be taken into consideration:

dare, make so bold as, be so bold as, presume, have the temerity, have the audacity, have the nerve, be brave enough, have the courage, go so far as;

take the liberty of.