All 9 Uses of
impudent
in
The Good Earth
- "If you are buying nothing more," he said at last with much impudence, "you will have to pay rent for the stool."†
Chpt 1 *
- Wang Lung was incensed at such impudence and he would have risen except that when he thought of going into the great House of Hwang and of asking there for a woman, sweat broke out over his whole body as though he were working in a field.†
Chpt 1
- Wang Lung nodded and left her and did not see her again until the guests came crowding in, his uncle jovial and sly and hungry, his uncle's son an impudent lad of fifteen, and the farmers clumsy and grinning with shyness.†
Chpt 1
- He went into the small tea shop and ordered tea of the slavey and when the boy had put it smartly before him and with an impudent gesture had caught and tossed the penny he paid for it, Wang Lung fell to musing.†
Chpt 16
- In the old days none knew him there and the tea boys were impudent to him, but now people nudged each other when he came in and he could hear a man whisper to another, "There is that man Wang from the Wang village, he who bought the land from the House of Hwang that winter the Old Lord died when there was the great famine.†
Chpt 18
- This, although when he saw the fat smooth face of his uncle's wife he felt fit to burst with his anger and when he saw the scampish, impudent face of his uncle's son, he could scarcely keep his hand down from slapping it.†
Chpt 20
- But Wang Lung repeated it and this time he thought to himself that he would kill this son of his uncle's now, this impudent scampish face, and he cried in a terrible voice, "Where has my son been this night?†
Chpt 23
- Then the young man was frightened at the sound of his voice and he answered sullenly and unwillingly, dropping his impudent eyes, "He was at the house of the whore who lives in the court that once belonged to the great house."†
Chpt 23
- Then seeing the delicate childish face and the drunken sleep that even the washing would not awaken, Wang Lung rose and went in his anger to his uncle's room, and he forgot the brother of his father and he remembered only that this man was father to the idle, impudent young man who had spoiled his own fair son, and he went in and he shouted, "Now I have harbored an ungrateful nest of snakes and they have bitten me!†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(impudent) improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status