INSOLENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insolently mean? 

• INSOLENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INSOLENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an insolent manner

  Familiarity information: INSOLENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSOLENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an insolent manner

Context example:

he had replied insolently to his superiors

Pertainym:

insolent (unrestrained by convention or propriety)

 Context examples 

He looked at me insolently.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I suppose I do come on; though in what fashion I know not; being scarcely cognisant of my movements, and solicitous only to appear calm; and, above all, to control the working muscles of my face—which I feel rebel insolently against my will, and struggle to express what I had resolved to conceal.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My own reading of the situation for what it is worth— he inflated his chest enormously and looked insolently around him at the words—is that evolution has advanced under the peculiar conditions of this country up to the vertebrate stage, the old types surviving and living on in company with the newer ones.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)