Usually means: Bold disrespect or impudent audacity.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word effrontery:

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  1. effrontery: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. effrontery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effrontery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. effrontery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. effrontery: Vocabulary.com
  6. effrontery: Wordnik
  7. effrontery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. effrontery: Wiktionary
  9. effrontery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. effrontery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. effrontery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Effrontery, effrontery: Dictionary.com
  13. effrontery: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Effrontery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Effrontery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. effrontery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. effrontery: Rhymezone
  18. Effrontery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. effrontery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. effrontery: Free Dictionary
  21. effrontery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. effrontery: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Effrontery: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effrontery: Legal dictionary

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  1. effrontery: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effrontery: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
noun:  (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.

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