All 12 Uses of
impertinent
in
The Fountainhead
- You're impertinent.†
Chpt 1.3
- Listen, you impertinent fool, this is incredible!†
Chpt 1.8
- "Well, if you're going to be impertinent…"†
Chpt 1.13
- He makes you feel it would be an impertinence to like him.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- He wore them with the careless impertinence of utter ease in the unbecoming, and the very grotesqueness of his appearance became a declaration of his superiority, a superiority great enough to warrant disregard of so much ungainliness.†
Chpt 2.6
- It was not jealousy; she did not care whether the face was a man's or a woman's; she resented the approval as an impertinence.†
Chpt 2.8
- But he sat down on the edge of the crumpled bed and slumped forward, his glance like a sensitive scale weighing Roark's features, impertinent in its open action of appraisal.†
Chpt 2.11
- These children had filthy clothes and smudged faces, agile little bodies, impertinent grins, and eyes bright with a roaring, imperious, demanding intelligence.†
Chpt 2.15
- The impertinence of it amused Wynand, as Toohey had known it would.†
Chpt 3.1
- Years ago, thinking of Gail Wynand, she had wondered how such a man faced his life and his work; she expected boasting and a hidden sense of shame, or impertinence flaunting its own guilt.†
Chpt 3.9
- His nonchalance had an air of gracious informality and a touch of impertinence, as if the people around him did not deserve the preservation of rigid good manners.†
Chpt 4.6
- But he knew that Gordon L. Prescott and Gus Webb represented so impertinent, so vicious a fraud that to suspend the evidence of his eyes was beyond his elastic capacity.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
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(impertinent as in: she was impertinent) rude or improperly bold -- especially toward someone more respected