All 12 Uses of
impudent
in
The American
- And he had written to Percival (who answered him in a really impudent fashion), and he had reflected that it was somehow, raw and reckless in Newman to assume in that off-hand manner that the young woman in Paris might be "grand."†
Chpt 5
- But there is one thing in which no one will ever have the impudence to pretend I am wrong, that is, in being your faithful friend, "C.†
Chpt 5
- He was not timid and he was not impudent.†
Chpt 6
- Damn his French impudence!†
Chpt 6 *
- The Count Valentin looked at our hero from head to foot with his peculiar smile, in which impudence and urbanity seemed perplexingly commingled.†
Chpt 6
- To speak with almost impudent frankness, you interest me!†
Chpt 7
- And to lose her by the interference and the dictation of others, by an impudent old woman and a pretentious fop stepping in with their "authority"!†
Chpt 18
- To say that, after what I have done, seems simply impudent; but what can I say that will not seem impudent?†
Chpt 20
- To say that, after what I have done, seems simply impudent; but what can I say that will not seem impudent?†
Chpt 20
- Madame de Cintre blushed a little and seemed to say that if begging his pardon in words was impudent, she might at least thus mutely express her perfect comprehension of his finding her conduct odious.†
Chpt 20
- He thought of Valentin de Bellegarde, still green in the earth of his burial—his young life clipped by this flourishing impudence.†
Chpt 25
- He has been very unwell," she added, turning and affecting to explain to Newman, with a spark of infernal impudence, fine as a needlepoint, in her eye.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(impudent) improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status