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[i-FRUN-tah-ree] 
1. shameless and insulting boldness; presumptuousness; insolence: "The effrontery of his initial proposal set a bad tone, which persisted throughout the negotiations."
Origin:
Approximately 1715; borrowed from French, 'effronterie,' from 'effronte': shameless; from Old French, 'esfronte'; possibly from Late Latin, 'effrontem': barefaced (nominative 'effrons'), ('ef-': out + Latin 'frontem,' 'frons': forehead, front). In action:
"For a species that is supposed to be finicky and clean, he has the grossest habits. When he eats, he sucks up his food, making a horrid slurping sound. But much of that food doesn't make it into his mouth, and he doesn't groom away the leftovers.
Which means he stinks and must be bathed regularly -- with a window screen on top of the tub so that he hooks his angry talons in the mesh instead of the eyeballs of the people who are bathing him.
And I won't go into what happened after he ate a very long piece of string.
His worst character flaw is how, in houseful of self-professed cat people, he has the effrontery to act like a dog.
When we go out for walks he likes to follow us up to Bloor St., howling as he goes."
Robin Harvey. "This cat's so bad he's good for us," [United front only way to cope with Jacko, but we wish he'd stop thinking he's a dog.] Toronto Star (April 24, 2004).
"Kean's effrontery in decreeing, when pressed about Gorelick in an interview Wednesday, that 'people ought to stay out of our business[,]' is so mind-blowing it's difficult to decide where to begin. Let's start with the most obvious: The work of the 9/11 Commission is America's business; it is not the private aerie of its ten plugged-in appointees. America expects its tribunals to exude integrity, to be above crass suspicions that the fix is in or that decisions are being made based on something other than a dispassionate review of the relevant circumstances. A tribunal, like the 9/11 Commission, cannot achieve that standard of probity if it has, sitting as a judge, a person whose conduct is at the core of what must be judged."
Andrew C. McCarthy. "The Appearance of Impropriety," [Chairman Kean should understand his business before he tells America to butt out of it.] The National Review (April 15, 2004).
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