All 9 Uses of
impertinent
in
Arrowsmith
- When he lifted his head to listen, his right eyebrow, slightly higher than the left, rose and quivered in his characteristic expression of energy, of independence, and a hint that he could fight, a look of impertinent inquiry which had been known to annoy his teachers and the Sunday School superintendent.†
Chpt 1
- As he lay in his narrow upper bunk at midnight, he saw her eyes, now impertinent, now reproving, now warm with trust in him.†
Chpt 3 *
- He informed himself that he was a moron to make this long trip into Zenith twice in one day; he remembered that he was engaged to a girl called Madeline Fox; he worried the matter of unfaithfulness; he asserted that Leora Tozer was merely an imitation nurse who was as illiterate as a kitchen wench and as impertinent as a newsboy; he decided, several times he decided, to telephone her and free himself from the engagement.†
Chpt 6
- Last night, however, he admitted that you had recently been impertinent to him.†
Chpt 9
- But Martin's belligerency was weakened by shame, for he never had enough money to meet his bills, and he was not used to dodging irate grocers, receiving dunning letters, standing at the door arguing with impertinent bill-collectors.†
Chpt 24
- They decided, almost irritably, that they looked utterly alike, except that her hair was more patent-leather than his and she lacked his impertinent, cocking eyebrow.†
Chpt 35
- The impertinence of that flabby blackguard to sneer at Gottlieb!†
Chpt 39
- He was likely to turn abusive, particularly as to her definition of Big Men, and when he became hot and vulgar, she turned grande dame, so that he felt like an impertinent servant and was the more vulgar.†
Chpt 39
- I've lost Terry, now (though I won't stand his impertinence!†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(impertinent as in: she was impertinent) rude or improperly bold -- especially toward someone more respected