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impertinent
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impertinent as in:  she was impertinent

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  • "You are a very naughty and impertinent little boy," said Uncle Andrew.  (source)
    impertinent = rude or improperly bold
  • I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.  (source)
    impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness
  • "It is full time that boy went to herding," said the head-man, while Buldeo puffed and snorted at Mowgli's impertinence.  (source)
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  • "Don't be impertinent," said the King, "and don't look at me like that!"  (source)
    impertinent = rude or improperly bold
  • And dressed like a woman of the people, she went to the fruiterer, the grocer, the butcher, a basket on her arm, bargaining, meeting with impertinence, defending her miserable money, sou by sou.  (source)
    impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness
  • The scars you so impertinently assumed were transplant scars came from a grenade.†  (source)
  • Arrest this impertinent little creep right now.†  (source)
  • Officials punished his impertinence by slashing the prisoners' rations and intensifying their exercise.†  (source)
  • The king had claimed that magic was an affront to the Goddess and her gods—that to wield it was to impertinently imitate their power.†  (source)
  • She can sometimes be a bit impertinent," the girl's mother said.†  (source)
  • They were a careful accounting of human flaws, noting specific instances of tardiness, impertinence, disaffection, drunkenness, sloth, desire.†  (source)
  • Orr grumbled impertinently in a voice slurred with fatigue.†  (source)
  • 1: contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech.†  (source)
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