All 5 Uses of
impertinent
in
Northanger Abbey
- They are very often amazingly impertinent if you do not treat them with spirit, and make them keep their distance.†
Chpt 6 *
- I hope they are not so impertinent as to follow us.†
Chpt 6
- Everybody acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulties of crossing Cheap Street at this point; it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day never passes in which parties of ladies, however important their business, whether in quest of pastry, millinery, or even (as in the present case) of young men, are not detained on one side or other by carriages, horsemen, or…†
Chpt 7
- The Tilneys called for her at the appointed time; and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able to fulfil her engagement, though it was made with the hero himself.†
Chpt 14
- "Henry," said Miss Tilney, "you are very impertinent.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(impertinent as in: she was impertinent) rude or improperly bold -- especially toward someone more respected