Sample Sentences for
impertinent
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impertinent as in:  she was impertinent

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    He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.  (source)
    impertinent = improperly bold
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    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."  (source)
    impertinence = rudeness
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    "It is full time that boy went to herding," said the head-man, while Buldeo puffed and snorted at Mowgli's impertinence.  (source)
    impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness
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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
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    I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.  (source)
    impertinence = rudeness or improper boldness
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    The scars you so impertinently assumed were transplant scars came from a grenade.†  (source)
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    Arrest this impertinent little creep right now.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Orr grumbled impertinently in a voice slurred with fatigue.†  (source)
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    1: contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech.†  (source)
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    My lord father would call that insolence, and send you to the mines for impertinence.†  (source)
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    Such a resolution, he somewhat impertinently argued, was improper if not unconstitutional by "tending to unsuitable discussions of character, and to debates altogether foreign to the subjects which properly belong" in the Senate.†  (source)
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    Uncle stamped his foot at this impertinent thought.†  (source)
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