Both Uses of
impudent
in
The Winter's Tale
- If thou wilt confess,— Or else be impudently negative, To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought,—then say My wife's a hobby-horse; deserves a name As rank as any flax-wench that puts to Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't.†
Scene 1.2 *
- I ne'er heard yet That any of these bolder vices wanted Less impudence to gainsay what they did Than to perform it first.†
Scene 3.2
Definition:
improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status