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/ɪmpˈɜːtɪnəns/
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NOUN
- an impudent statement
- the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- inappropriate playfulness
How To Use impertinence In A Sentence
- I consider his remark a gross impertinence.
- And once again, I deeply and sincerely apologize for having had the impertinence to permit my myoclonus and fasciculations and other neurological symptoms of Lyme to resolve in a manner and through a physician that didn't meet with your express approval. Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans
- `I don't want any impertinence out of you, young man,' she'd snapped and marched off in high dudgeon. JUST BETWEEN US
- 'I never thought well of her, pretending to drink nothing but water; and with that short, dry way, that I call impertinence; but I never thought she could be so lost till last night! Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
- I found the justice but one degree removed from idiotism, and knowing that he would commit some blunder in the execution of his office, which would lay him at your mercy, I contrived to make his folly the instrument of my escape — I was dismissed without being obliged to sign the information I had given; and you took ample vengeance for his tyranny and impertinence. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
- The log books show that in those days impertinence was punished by one or two cuts with the cane - or a slap with an open hand.
- All speech would have been an intrusion and any physical contact an impertinence. ULTIMATE PRIZES
- Without in any way countenancing the impertinence of "antilynching" committee, we may say that a state of things in which the killing of The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
- The log books show that in those days impertinence was punished by one or two cuts with the cane - or a slap with an open hand.
- The driver of that taxi-cab seemed to me familiar to the point of impertinence.