Sample sentences for IMPERTINENT

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Definition

rude or improperly bold — especially toward someone more respected

Much 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
Miss Stephanie eyed me suspiciously, decided that I meant no impertinence, and contented herself with, "Well, you won't get very far until you start wearing dresses more often."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

impertinence = rudeness

Arrest this impertinent little creep right now.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot

impertinent = rude or improperly bold — especially toward someone more respected

"Don't be impertinent," said the King, "and don't look at me like that!"
Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

impertinent = rude or improperly bold

"You are a very naughty and impertinent little boy," said Uncle Andrew.
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

impertinent = rude or improperly bold

"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

impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness

I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness

What impertinence!
Lewis Carroll -- Through the Looking-Glass

impertinence = rude or improperly bold behavior

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

impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness

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

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