All 3 Uses
impudent
in
1984, by Orwell
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- Sometimes he talked to her of the Records Department and the impudent forgeries that he committed there.†
p. 154.6 *
- Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts.†
p. 212.6
- Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts.†
p. 216.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(impudent) improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)