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improperly bold or disrespectful — especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status
- The reader has, probably, not forgotten the impudent beggar who had been clinging fast to the fringes of the cardinal's gallery ever since the beginning of the prologue.1.1.4 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 4 — Master Jacques Coppenole (22% in)
- Joannes Frollo de Molendin, in his quality of brother to an archdeacon, boldly attacked the scarlet; he sang in deafening tones, with his impudent eyes fastened on the cardinal, "~Cappa repleta mero~!"1.1.3 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 3 — Monsieur the Cardinal (67% in)
- The inconceivable impudence!2.7.1 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 1 — The Danger of Confiding One's.... (69% in)
- "What indeed!" said the scholar; and he lifted to Claude his impudent eyes into which he had just thrust his fists in order to communicate to them the redness of tears; " 'tis Greek!2.7.4 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 4 — ANARKH (89% in)
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