without so much as a by-your-leave
old-fashioned disapprovingDefinition
› without asking for permission: That's twice now he's just walked in here without so much as a by-your-leave and picked a book off the shelf!Rude and cheekyRelating to sex and sexual desire
(Definition of without so much as a by-your-leave from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- backchat noun
- chutzpah noun
- cocksure adjective
- cocky adjective
- crude adjective (RUDE)
- impolite adjective
- indelicate adjective
- lippy adjective
- neanderthal adjective
- nerve noun (RUDENESS)
- obnoxious adjective
- pert adjective
- presumptuous adjective
- rude adjective (NOT POLITE)
- sass noun
- sass verb
- sauce noun (RUDENESS)
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