Insouciant vs Insolent - What's the difference?
insouciant | insolent |
Carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned.
* 1903 , , "Cadiz" in The Land of The Blessed Virgin :
* 1913 , , The Golden Road , ch. 3:
* 2004 April 26, , "
Insulting in manner or words.
Rude.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,!”
Cheeky.
As adjectives the difference between insouciant and insolent
is that insouciant is carefree, nonchalant, indifferent; casually unconcerned while insolent is insulting in manner or words.insouciant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was there that on Sunday I had seen the populace disport itself, and it was full of life then, gay and insouciant .
- How I envied Peter his easy, insouciant manner!
Sean Penn: Necessary Actor," Time :
- Jack Nicholson . . . turned to an assistant, bummed a cigarette, flashed one of his wolfish, insouciant grins and said, "We all have our little secrets, Seany."