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121contumacious — a. Insolently disobedient, wilfully disrespectful, obstinate, perverse, stubborn, headstrong, heady, dogged, intractable, refractory, cross grained, stiff necked, pertinacious, obdurate …
122bully — I. n. 1. Blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, hector, fire eater, Hotspur, mock hero, swash buckler, browbeater, bully rook, bully rock, domineering stormer. 2. Desperado, villain, blackguard, bawd protector, harlot s henchman. II. v. a. Browbeat,… …
123flaunt — I. v. n. Flutter, make a show, make a parade, cut a dash, be ostentatious. II. v. a. 1. Wave ostentatiously, brazenly, insolently, or boldly. 2. Display with effrontery, toss, flourish, disport, vaunt, boast …
124triumph — I. n. 1. Ovation, celebration, jubilee, jubilation, exultation, flourish of trumpets, joy. 2. Conquest, victory, success. II. v. n. 1. Exult, rejoice, hold a triumph, celebrate a victory. 2. Prevail, succeed, get the mastery, obtain a victory,… …
125insolent — adjective rude and not showing any respect: an insolent tone of voice | You insolent child! insolently adverb insolence noun (U) …
126mouth off — informal 1) he was mouthing off about politics again Syn: rant, spout, declaim, sound off 2) the students mouthed off to their teacher Syn: talk insolently, be disrespectful …
127confident — confident, assured, sanguine, sure, presumptuous arecomparable as applied to a person or to his temperament, looks, manner, acts, or utterances with the meaning not inhibited by doubts, fears, or a sense of inferiority. Confident may imply a… …
128masterful — masterful, domineering, imperious, peremptory, imperative are comparable when they apply to persons or their acts, utterances, and demands and mean governed by, or manifesting, a strong tendency to impose one s will on another. One is masterful… …
