All 3 Uses of
impudent
in
Mansfield Park
- An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl.†
Chpt 14 *
- He was in high spirits, doing everything with happy ease, and preeminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; and the round table was altogether a very comfortable contrast to the steady sobriety and orderly silence of the other.†
Chpt 25
- …greater seduction I pretended not to say), but the manner in which she spoke of the crime itself, giving it every reproach but the right; considering its ill consequences only as they were to be braved or overborne by a defiance of decency and impudence in wrong; and last of all, and above all, recommending to us a compliance, a compromise, an acquiescence in the continuance of the sin, on the chance of a marriage which, thinking as I now thought of her brother, should rather be…†
Chpt 47
Definition:
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(impudent) improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status