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Definition
rude or improperly bold — especially toward someone more respected
- Corporal Whitcomb sauntered back in wearing a shiny new smirk and leaned his elbow impertinently against the center pole of the chaplain's tent.Chapter 20 — Corporal Whitcomb (70% in)
- Orr grumbled impertinently in a voice slurred with fatigue.Chapter 22 — Milo the Mayor (71% in)
There are no more uses of "impertinent" in Catch-22.
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