All 4 Uses of
impudent
in
The Secret Garden
- Basil was a little boy with impudent blue eyes and a turned-up nose, and Mary hated him.†
p. 8.1 *
- "Well," said Martha, evidently not in the least aware that she was impudent, "it's time tha' should learn.†
p. 23.7
- And she ran into the middle of the room and, taking a handle in each hand, began to skip, and skip, and skip, while Mary turned in her chair to stare at her, and the queer faces in the old portraits seemed to stare at her, too, and wonder what on earth this common little cottager had the impudence to be doing under their very noses.†
p. 63.2
- And yet it's not impudence, either.†
p. 180.5
Definition:
improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status