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rude or improperly bold — especially toward someone more respected
- The king had claimed that magic was an affront to the Goddess and her gods—that to wield it was to impertinently imitate their power.p. 31.4
- Dorian, realizing how close he was to crossing a boundary between impertinence and rebellion—a boundary that he'd been very, very careful to maintain—mumbled his apologies.p. 48.7
- "If we're finished, I'm afraid I must take my leave," interrupted Dorian from beside her, and her head snapped up at the sound of his voice—and his impertinence in interrupting his father.p. 70.3
- It was prying, and a bit impertinent—and she regretted the question the second it came out.p. 98.9
- She was a haughty, vulgar, utterly impertinent assassin.p. 102.8
There are no more uses of "impertinent" in Throne of Glass.
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