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rude or improperly bold — especially toward someone more respectedMuch more rarely, "impertinent" may mean: not pertinent (relevant) to the matter under consideration.
- It was impertinent of the child to lecture a grownup.
impertinent = rude or improperly bold — especially toward someone more respected
- He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent, and evidence of a restless spirit.Douglass, Frederick -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
- I like him on the whole very well; he is clever and has a good deal to say, but he is sometimes impertinent and troublesome.Austen, Jane -- Lady Susan
- mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point
- He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice
- Arrest this impertinent little creep right now.Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
- "Don't be impertinent," said the King, "and don't look at me like that!"Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- "You are a very naughty and impertinent little boy," said Uncle Andrew.C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew
- "It is full time that boy went to herding," said the head-man, while Buldeo puffed and snorted at Mowgli's impertinence.Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper
- What impertinence!Lewis Carroll -- Through the Looking-Glass
- 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.Guy de Maupassant -- The Diamond Necklace
- This is hardly the place or the time for impertinence.Stephen King -- Carrie
- The touch of some hands is an impertinence.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- I was saucy and impertinent to him, Leo, like you are with people sometimes, and I wish somebody had made me behave.'Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- Before I had time to deal with that, however, he continued as if with the sense that this was an impertinence to be softened.Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
- But several facts passed; Charles pressed for them with an impertinence that the undergraduate could not withstand.E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- 'Perhaps,' observed Traddles, 'it was mere purposeless impertinence?'Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- She had asked him to call her Bess, even, but that would have felt impertinent; she had to be in her forties.Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
- Then, after a moment, Dahwar said, "Please excuse my impertinence, sir, for I am ignorant of the ways of the Riders, but are you not human?Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
impertinent = rude or improperly bold — especially toward someone more respected
impertinent = rude or improperly bold
impertinent = rude or improperly bold
impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness
impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness
impertinence = rude or improperly bold behavior
impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness