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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--effrontery This week's theme: miscellaneous words. effrontery (i-FRUN-tuh-ree) noun Shameless boldness; presumptuousness. [From French effronterie, from effronté (shameless), from Latin effrons (barefaced, shameless), from ex- (out of, from) + frons (forehead, brow).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "The effrontery of such pedestrian politicos to display their appetite for power and authority is stupefying." Uri Dan; Think of Him As 'Last of the Just'; The Jerusalem Post (Israel); Nov 1, 2006. X-Bonus Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)

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