All 3 Uses of
impudent
in
Northanger Abbey
- He was a stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy.†
Chpt 7 *
- Catherine listened with astonishment; she knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the same thing; for she had not been brought up to understand the propensities of a rattle, nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead.†
Chpt 9
- Her professions of attachment were now as disgusting as her excuses were empty, and her demands impudent.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(impudent) improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status