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Definition
rude or improperly bold — especially toward someone more respected
- There is a great deal of impertinence in your saying it.Chapter 12 (99% in)
- My daughter, whom you have never seen, is nothing to you; and I, possibly, am only an indiscreet and impertinent old man.Chapter 14 (33% in)
- "Do you mean that for an impertinence?" he inquired; an inquiry of which, as he made it, he quite perceived the grossness.Chapter 18 (67% in)
- An impertinence?Chapter 18 (68% in)
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