Both Uses of
impudent
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
- with which he was much delighted when it did not grow up to impudence, as bearing a great resemblance to his own temper, and he looked on such persons as the fittest men for affairs.†
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- and this is done with such impudence, that those very men who value themselves on having suggested these expedients to their princes would, with a haughty scorn, declaim against such craft;†
Definition:
improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status