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  • Impudent strumpet!   (source)
  • HIGGINS [disagreeably surprised] Damn his impudence!   (source)
    impudence = improper boldness or disrespect
  • Now and then he turned his eyes from the girl's face to that of her partner, which, in the exhilaration of the dance, had taken on a look of almost impudent ownership.   (source)
    impudent = improperly bold or disrespectful
  • "and your impudence passes belief," she said merrily.   (source)
    impudence = improper boldness or disrespect
  • you impudent young rascal   (source)
    impudent = disrespectful
  • He said impudently, "No."   (source)
    impudently = in a manner that was improperly bold or disrespectful
  • ...our employer's late clever, good-looking "own" man; impudent, assured, spoiled, depraved.   (source)
    impudent = improperly bold or disrespectful
  • Impudence will make things worse for you.†   (source)
  • He has a frozen, impudent look on his face as if the pane of glass between you could protect him from anything, from everything, and if he blinks you do not see it.†   (source)
  • "Sheer impudence, that's what it was," Paul replied as he struggled to grasp the situation.†   (source)
  • The impudence.†   (source)
  • By this time he was back at the counter, and he fixed her with an impudent eye.†   (source)
  • As soon as it's out it sounds impudent.†   (source)
  • Curran, maybe the young man who spoke to you so impudently should be moved to a seat where his dubious charms will not be so enthusiastically embraced.†   (source)
  • You were impudent before.†   (source)
  • 'I don't have time for this impudence, convict.†   (source)
  • The two of them looked at Eragon impudently, as if to ask, "What?"†   (source)
  • We wondered: Is he looking for the world's longest The Verse to give Leah on the subject of impudence?†   (source)
  • He sang them in a woman's voice if they were hers, in a tenor's voice if they were his, and ended with impudent laughter that was a masterful imitation of the servant girls when they heard him singing in French.†   (source)
  • This was just about the most impudent trick she had ever heard of.†   (source)
  • He didn't give me a sneer, as if to say that I was an impudent girl, and he didn't look away as if it made no difference where I looked or what I thought.†   (source)
  • My request was ultimately granted, accompanied by a stern warning from Colonel Jacobs that serious consequences would result if I returned to my impudent ways.†   (source)
  • Each one of them saw himself as El-ahrairah, who could be impudent to Frith and get away with it.†   (source)
  • He stepped with an independent stride that was almost a swagger, and already felt himself a successful man; but that one of the tribe of borrowing Passmores should presume to such opulence of charm struck him as well-nigh impudent.†   (source)
  • "Old maid," Sigmund says impudently.†   (source)
  • Clara's impudent and nonchalant sensuality was also not enough for him.†   (source)
  • Yossarian choked on his toast and eggs at the enormity of his error in tearing her long, lithe, nude, young vibrant limbs into any pieces of paper so impudently and dumping her down so smugly into the gutter from the curb.†   (source)
  • He had high cheekbones and a chin that was confident but not impudent.†   (source)
  • He turned to us, as if asking us to witness her impudence.†   (source)
  • A more impudent, false, and atrocious proclamation was never fabricated by the hands of man.†   (source)
  • This is just like her daughter, scornful and impudent.†   (source)
  • The Hound sits at your right hand and you have the impudence to deny Rowan's treason!†   (source)
  • A year later this same wench had the impudence to turn up at the Dreadfort with a squalling, red-faced monster that she claimed was my own get.†   (source)
  • Quentin Daniels sat on the floor, with his tray on his lap; he seemed completely at home, and he glanced up at her once in a while, grinning like an impudent kid brother who had beaten her to a secret she had not discovered.†   (source)
  • Still his fury held for one more blow, and before she could sink upon him, smothering him and all his little impudence of courage, he slashed the bright elven-blade across her with desperate strength.†   (source)
  • Sarcasm, of course, Mr. McLean, and I cannot blame you nor will I chastise you for your impudence.†   (source)
  • "I suppose," she offered, "that precision is not one of your strong points," and then she gave him the same smile that she had used in accusing him of being a deaf mute-so challenging, so impudent, so inviting.†   (source)
  • One after another the boat people shrieked angry curses at the intruder, at its impudent engine and its more impudent wake.†   (source)
  • A few pedestrians straggled past them, homeward bound in the dusk; one, an elderly man bundled up against the wind, clumsily bumped Jan, who made an impudent gesture with his hand, then strolled on with his sister, deep in his chat, explaining …. explaining.†   (source)
  • I'm badgered enough here by females without your impudence.†   (source)
  • The sheriff heeded the voice and looked at the room--flowered chintz, lace curtains, white drawn-work table cover, cushions on the couch covered with a bright and impudent print.†   (source)
  • He justified what he was going to do on the grounds that it is sometimes necessary to teach a child a lesson he wont forget, particularly when the child is always reasserting his position with some new impudence.†   (source)
  • "Then I shall know where to find you," Nathan said smiling, for there was an impudence in the boy which was somehow attractive.†   (source)
  • Miss Eckhart had made an exception of Virgie Rainey; she had first respected Virgie Rainey, and now fell humble before her impudence.†   (source)
  • Impudence!†   (source)
  • Impudent strumpet, impudent strumpet, impudent strumpet.   (source)
  • Impudent strumpet, impudent strumpet.   (source)
  • Impudent strumpet!   (source)
  • Impudent …   (source)
  • "Such impudence is disturbing," Lockton said.†   (source)
  • I shall report your impudence to the president.†   (source)
  • Zalmai was quick then with a defiant cackle or an impudent grin.†   (source)
  • And then if they were dirty, mean and impudent, why did Momma have to call them Miz?†   (source)
  • That cup had its place and it was an act of impudent rebellion to place it anywhere else.†   (source)
  • But mostly with weeds, some stunted, some springing impudently halfway up the walls.†   (source)
  • I let just the tiniest shred of impudence enter my voice.†   (source)
  • Sadly, our brother Kronos was dissolved by those impudent demigods.†   (source)
  • Bronn could not read, so he asked impudent questions.†   (source)
  • For it is this impudent boy who has been spreading those pestilential Blood Petals about your lands.†   (source)
  • I love any man who would throttle an impudent Irishman.†   (source)
  • Nelthilta, however, stopped of her own accord and stared impudently at him.†   (source)
  • But the ants continued to appear and multiply, daily growing more impudent and more decisive.†   (source)
  • He saw a sudden flicker in the boy's face, an attempt at his old, bright, impudent grin.†   (source)
  • But despite his impudence, I must salute him.†   (source)
  • "Your impudence will only jeopardize your future, sir;' he said, preparing to write.†   (source)
  • Bennington whispers in your ear that I am an impudent punk who's going to make trouble.†   (source)
  • It was the boy with the impudent face who had guided us.†   (source)
  • It's the basic syrup with just a soupcon of discreet impudence ….†   (source)
  • Mr. Tuffett gripped the edge of his desk and said between clenched teeth, "For that bit of impudence you may remain one hour after school, young lady!"†   (source)
  • THAT THERE WERE NO PEOPLE WHO HAD SO MUCH IMPUDENCE AS THE AMERICANS—FOR THERE WAS NOT ANY PEOPLE BRED EVEN AT COURTS WHO HAD SO MUCH CONFIDENCE AS THE AMERICANS.†   (source)
  • "Thou shall not be dirty" and "Thou shall not be impudent" were the two commandments of Grandmother Henderson upon which hung our total salvation.†   (source)
  • The impudent child was detested by God and a shame to its parents and could bring destruction to its house and line.†   (source)
  • I would have reminded him that I was no doctor and therefore was ill equipped to do a thorough examination, but impudence would have diminished my lead.†   (source)
  • When the time came, he invariably found fault where there was none and punished her for her impudence.†   (source)
  • I never meant to be impudent.†   (source)
  • The picture was of the Matterhorn, but the silky image, half lost in the glass and far more engaging, was the uninvited presence of the Gran Sasso impudently asserting that life itself was better even than its best remembrance.†   (source)
  • Called "an impudent rebel" and threatened with hanging, Dunscomb said that General Washington would respond in kind and hang man for man.†   (source)
  • General Peckem drifted toward the window, laughing quietly again, and settled back against the sill with his arms folded, greatly satisfied by his own wit and by his knowledgeable, blase impudence.†   (source)
  • Rearden rose to his feet by a long, cautious effort; he saw the tortured spasm of the boy's features, as he settled him slowly against his chest, like a baby held tight in his arms-but the spasm twisted into another echo of the impudent grin, and the boy asked, "Who's the Wet Nurse now?"†   (source)
  • When I visited them [the prostitutes] at first I thought nothing could exceed them for impudence and immodesty, but I found the more I was acquainted with them the more they excelled in their brutality.†   (source)
  • "The rebels have the impudence to fit out privateers," wrote an indignant British officer, snug in his quarters, but the day would come, he knew, when "we shall give the scoundrels a hearty thrashing and put an end to this business.†   (source)
  • Mattie Will cried, but the impudence-which still seemed marvelous to her since she'd never laid eyes on him close or thought of opening her mouth to him-all the impudence was carried off on the batting spring wind.†   (source)
  • The administration paraded witnesses to the stand to show that I was a lousy teacher, a liar, an impudent troublemaker, and a discredit to the hallowed profession of teaching.†   (source)
  • Nelson certainly had not but he was a child who was never satisfied until he had given an impudent answer and he replied, "It's nowhere around here to get lost at.†   (source)
  • The chair contains a girl of 20, ANNIE SULLIVAN, with a face which in repose is grave and rather obstinate, and when active is impudent, combative, twinkling with all the life that is lacking in HELEN'S, and handsome; there is a crude vitality to her.†   (source)
  • (He lowers his hands, looks up again, and with just a spark o f his old impudence) I recognize the style.†   (source)
  • She could not see his face, only his feet and legs and trunk sticking impudently out from the side of the tractor.†   (source)
  • (Going, he turns at the exit and anxiously scans STEWARD's face for signs o f impudence) I'll permit no breath of insolence!†   (source)
  • Maybe he didn't care enough to seem distinguished, maybe his manner wasn't right, impudent, perhaps.†   (source)
  • What infernal impudence made you presume that I'd want you?†   (source)
  • That's a very impudent boy, a regular little gold-digger, my dear."†   (source)
  • I don't know why, for I always thought that town a mighty pushy, impudent sort of place.†   (source)
  • She made a last impudent malicious gesture and was gone-perhaps for ever as far as he was concerned.†   (source)
  • "Why, you impudent black rascal!" he thundered.†   (source)
  • The Nineteenth Century had an impudent way with its labels.†   (source)
  • She stared impudently at a picture of a chorus lady, cut from the Police Gazette.†   (source)
  • As Frank said, it was a pushy, impudent place and that was why she liked it.†   (source)
  • He returned with the French maid, a pretty, impudent-looking girl.†   (source)
  • "Don't be impudent," said Scarlett coldly, for she saw little humor in Tommy's remark.†   (source)
  • I can't, hey?" said the little soldier who held it, grinning impudently at her.†   (source)
  • As always when his mockery aroused wrath within her, wrath fought with laughter at his impudence.†   (source)
  • Most impudent thing I ever heard of.†   (source)
  • "If you are buying nothing more," he said at last with much impudence, "you will have to pay rent for the stool."†   (source)
  • Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity of the old woman.†   (source)
  • Damned impudence!†   (source)
  • Aunt Bertha's customary verve and impudence had vanished, and with it her boisterous manner that was part of her even when she spoke quietly.†   (source)
  • A face that had once been pretty impudently pretty perhaps-and which was now beyond the reach of pity or terror.†   (source)
  • The writer had the impudence to demand that I should pay him twenty-five thousand pounds-twenty-five thousand pounds, M. Poirot!†   (source)
  • Sometimes he talked to her of the Records Department and the impudent forgeries that he committed there.†   (source)
  • But during the penance she set herself for this impudence the thought came to her to send for Captain Alvarado.†   (source)
  • Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts.†   (source)
  • He went into the small tea shop and ordered tea of the slavey and when the boy had put it smartly before him and with an impudent gesture had caught and tossed the penny he paid for it, Wang Lung fell to musing.†   (source)
  • If a boy was impudent to him he would rip him powerfully from his seat, drag his wriggling figure into his office, breathing stertorously as he walked along at his clumsy rapid gait, and saying roundly, in tones of scathing contempt: "Why, you young upstart, we'll just see who's master here.†   (source)
  • Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts.†   (source)
  • But Wang Lung repeated it and this time he thought to himself that he would kill this son of his uncle's now, this impudent scampish face, and he cried in a terrible voice, "Where has my son been this night?†   (source)
  • This, although when he saw the fat smooth face of his uncle's wife he felt fit to burst with his anger and when he saw the scampish, impudent face of his uncle's son, he could scarcely keep his hand down from slapping it.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung nodded and left her and did not see her again until the guests came crowding in, his uncle jovial and sly and hungry, his uncle's son an impudent lad of fifteen, and the farmers clumsy and grinning with shyness.†   (source)
  • "Scarlett," said Tommy awkwardly, "I do hate to ask a favor of you, after being impudent to you, but I'm going to ask it just the same.†   (source)
  • Then seeing the delicate childish face and the drunken sleep that even the washing would not awaken, Wang Lung rose and went in his anger to his uncle's room, and he forgot the brother of his father and he remembered only that this man was father to the idle, impudent young man who had spoiled his own fair son, and he went in and he shouted, "Now I have harbored an ungrateful nest of snakes and they have bitten me!†   (source)
  • It was easier to forget the impudent black faces in the streets and the blue uniforms of the garrison while they were listening to music.†   (source)
  • In the old days none knew him there and the tea boys were impudent to him, but now people nudged each other when he came in and he could hear a man whisper to another, "There is that man Wang from the Wang village, he who bought the land from the House of Hwang that winter the Old Lord died when there was the great famine.†   (source)
  • She hated the impudent free negroes as much as anyone and her flesh crawled with fury every time she heard their insulting remarks and high-pitched laughter as she went by.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung was incensed at such impudence and he would have risen except that when he thought of going into the great House of Hwang and of asking there for a woman, sweat broke out over his whole body as though he were working in a field.†   (source)
  • His black eyes took her in from bonnet to heels in a glance that missed nothing, that old impudent unclothing glance which always gave her goose bumps.†   (source)
  • They were impudent looking, Scarlett agreed, for they stared at her in an insolent manner, but she forgot them in the renewed shock of seeing blue uniforms.†   (source)
  • I didn't mean to be impudent.†   (source)
  • If only he had the gallantry and ardor of the Tarleton boys or even the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler.†   (source)
  • The mainspring of his existence was taken away when she died and with it had gone his bounding assurance, his impudence and his restless vitality.†   (source)
  • There was no evading his impudence.†   (source)
  • "Shall we let the bugles sing truce?" he smiled down at her, a wide flashing smile that had impudence in it but no shame for his own actions or condemnation for hers.†   (source)
  • Or preempted a seat by her at a musicale or claimed her at a dance, and she was usually so amused by his bland impudence that she laughed and overlooked his past misdeeds until the next occurred.†   (source)
  • Once the hard times were disposed of, the ladies spoke of the increasing impudence of the negroes and the outrages of the Carpetbaggers and the humiliation of having the Yankee soldiers loafing on every corner.†   (source)
  • She peered up with the alert impudence of a squirrel.†   (source)
  • It appeared to be impudently tame, and the horses kicked dust over it as they trotted by.†   (source)
  • But we went, and then there was one of those impudent conductors, and Paul wouldn't do a thing.†   (source)
  • And little thanks you get for it, only impudence.†   (source)
  • The Step-Daughter [disdainful, alluring, treacherous, full of impudence].†   (source)
  • His whole appearance gave one the idea of impudence; his dress was shabby.†   (source)
  • A woodpecker stuck his impudent head around the side of a tree.†   (source)
  • "Great pirates of Penzance!" says I; "of all the impudent--"†   (source)
  • Cultivate a little impudence, Ramsden; and you will become quite a remarkable man.†   (source)
  • Basil was a little boy with impudent blue eyes and a turned-up nose, and Mary hated him.†   (source)
  • Brierly was not bored—he was exasperated; and if so, then Jim might not have been impudent.†   (source)
  • THE STEP-DAUGHTER, is dashing, almost impudent, beautiful.†   (source)
  • They followed their chief into the salon, however, with a kind of impudent curiosity.†   (source)
  • That impudent Scarlet Pimpernel would slip through clumsy fingers.†   (source)
  • Don t you what ME, you impudent thing—hand out them letters.†   (source)
  • RAMSDEN [very deliberately] Mr Tanner: you are the most impudent person I have ever met.†   (source)
  • Later on he said to himself: "What was I so impudent to Clara for?"†   (source)
  • What he was thinking, more or less, was: "Well, she's certainly impudent enough!†   (source)
  • "Hamilton, you damn ole scoundrel," he roared, "I'll 'scharge you for impudence, you see 'f I don't!†   (source)
  • She started; till a humorous impudence sparkled in her eyes, and she spoke.†   (source)
  • He was an elderly man now, and it would be futile and impudent to correct him.†   (source)
  • "Damn his impudence,' he chuckled to himself.†   (source)
  • And, half affectionate, half impudent, they bundled him in.†   (source)
  • Link smoked a cigarette and looked coolly impudent.†   (source)
  • The impudent cheat answered me in the Gaelic that he had no English.†   (source)
  • The calm impudence of his antagonist had evidently thrown him off his usual balance.†   (source)
  • No: I am only the most impudent person you've ever met.†   (source)
  • The others laughed loudly at her impudence.†   (source)
  • I think it was impudence, but I don't know about a trick," said Mrs. Moore.†   (source)
  • Well, I consider that extremely impudent on your part!†   (source)
  • "Never mind his impudence!" exclaimed Alfred; and then again he laughed.†   (source)
  • He looked up at her, laughing with impudence.†   (source)
  • Russ raised his head to growl at their impudence.†   (source)
  • If you had but read his confession—good Lord! what refinement of impudence!†   (source)
  • "Demmed impudence," commented Sir Percy with a good-natured smile.†   (source)
  • I didn't know whether it was delightful candor or impudence.†   (source)
  • No one will have the impudence to pretend that this fine broad river falls over yonder hills?†   (source)
  • "I say nothing of which I am ashamed," replied he, with lively impudence.†   (source)
  • What impudence towards their chiefs and superiors has spread among the young generation!†   (source)
  • An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl.†   (source)
  • 'Changed hotel, very bad, impudent clerk, address here.†   (source)
  • You have discovered already that I am talkative and impudent.†   (source)
  • All this was impudence and desecration, and he repented that he had brought her.†   (source)
  • "But if I give you the surplus," replied Monsieur Lheureux impudently, "is that not helping you?"†   (source)
  • 'Confound his impudence!' muttered Squeers, rapping the stair-rail impatiently with his cane.†   (source)
  • I will not encourage the impudence of either, by receiving them at Longbourn.†   (source)
  • "I don't allow strangers to be bold and impudent—even in praise of me."†   (source)
  • 'Like his impudence,' said Peggotty, 'but I don't mind that!†   (source)
  • If a beast, it is a bold one; and if a man, an impudent.†   (source)
  • "HE won't be troubling me this morning," Jos thought, "with his dandified airs and his impudence."†   (source)
  • That is a fiction — an impudent invention to vex me.†   (source)
  • She did not deem it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her in the face.†   (source)
  • 'Confound his impudence!' said Nicholas, firing immediately.†   (source)
  • The most rebellious, saucy, impudent dog!†   (source)
  • "All this is very naive…. excuse me, I should have said impudent on your part," said Raskolnikov.†   (source)
  • "Damn his impudence!" the Doctor exclaimed privately.†   (source)
  • Impudence!" they heard behind them the voice of Mavra Kuzminichna who had entered silently.†   (source)
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