How To Use Impertinence In A Sentence
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I consider his remark a gross impertinence.
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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
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`I don't want any impertinence out of you, young man,' she'd snapped and marched off in high dudgeon.
JUST BETWEEN US
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'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
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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
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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.
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All speech would have been an intrusion and any physical contact an impertinence.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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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
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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.
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The driver of that taxi-cab seemed to me familiar to the point of impertinence.
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She considered her cause to be so clamantly just that to expatiate to the Holy Father upon its merits would be an impertinence; it was not conceivable that He would fail her; and in any event, she had in hand a deal of sewing which required immediate attention.
Chivalry
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I consider his remark a gross impertinence.
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And then with more apologies for what he called his impertinence, he took his leave, and I felt altogether very much pleased and flattered.
Uncle Silas
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There are some natural touches of character about him, such as his mixture of irascibility and placability, and his curious affection for Sancho together with his impatience of the squire's loquacity and impertinence; but in the main, apart from his craze, he is little more than a thoughtful, cultured gentleman, with instinctive good taste and a great deal of shrewdness and originality of mind.
Don Quixote
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I consider his remark a gross impertinence.
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And politicians have the impertinence, not to mention the brass neck, to continue to wonder why the public is disillusioned with them.
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Very soon after, this anxiety was tinctured with a feeling more severe; he saw her spoken to negligently by Sir Sedley – he required, after what he had already himself deemed impertinence from the Baronet, that she should have assumed to him a distant dignity; but he perceived, on the contrary, that she answered him with pleasant alacrity, and, when not engaged by Mrs. Berlinton, attended to him, even with distinction.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Et comme c'est vne chose fort inciuile de ne se pas decouurir devant ceux a qui l'on doit ce respect, pour les saluer, ou d'attendre que vostre egal vous rend le premier ce deuoir; aussi de le faire, quand il n'est pas a propos, ressent sa ciuilite affectee: mais c'est vne honteuse impertinence de prendre garde si l'on vous rend vostre salutation.
George Washington's Rules of Civility
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It is certainly not John the Baptist, nor John the Evangelist, nor James the Greater, nor James the Less; he must inevitably be some witling of a Hun, to write such abominable impertinence, or some ill-conditioned, malicious
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Aislinn crossed the chamber in irate strides, fuming at Kerwick's impertinence.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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He expressed in strong terms his annoyance at what he called their impertinence, whilst I could not but laugh at his impatience, as well as at the mortification of the unfortunate pedestrians, whose eagerness to see him, I said, was, in my opinion, highly flattering to him.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Mark Twain
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He could have withstood the impertinence of the fellow, but his affected Gallic pronunciation of the word `discord" was too much.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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Now, we won't submit to impertinence from these pimply, tipsy virgins.
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As you have heard, she considered her cause to be so clamantly just that to expatiate to the Holy Father upon its merits were an impertinence; it was not conceivable that He would fail her; and in any event, she had in hand a deal of sewing which required immediate attention.
Chivalry
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The abashless inquisition of each star" was the scrutiny that obsessed his ways, the impertinence that he suffered most; for he had the magnitude of soul that hungered for placement, and the plague of two masters was on him.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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He could have withstood the impertinence of the fellow, but his affected Gallic pronunciation of the word `discord" was too much.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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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
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She had the impertinence to suggest I needed a holiday.
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All the Branghtons called to take leave of me; but I will not write a word more about them: indeed I cannot, with any patience, think of that family, to whose forwardness and impertinence is owing all the uneasiness I at this moment suffer!
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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I have been in politics a while - not long enough, obviously - but I have been in politics a while and I have seen some examples of impertinence, cheek, and gall, but that last speech beats them all.
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“Much impertinence is hydroscopic,” said the speaker on the translator console.
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“A troublesome, inquisitive old gentleman,” said Tyrrel to himself; “I remember him narrowly escaping the bastinado at Smyrna, for thrusting his advice on the Turkish cadi — and then I lie under a considerable obligation to him, giving him a sort of right to annoy me — Well, I must parry his impertinence as I can.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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Miss Vernon, as she gave a glance after him; it is hard that persons of birth and rank and estate should be subjected to the official impertinence of such a paltry pickthank as that, merely for believing as the whole world believed not much above a hundred years ago --- for certainly our Catholic Faith has the advantage of antiquity at least. ''
Rob Roy
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Kaspar Campèll, who in the first half of the sixteenth century preached the Reformed religion in the Engadine.] [Footnote 4: I have translated and printed at the end of the second volume some sonnets of Petrarch as a kind of palinode for this impertinence.] [Footnote 5: This begs the question whether [Greek: leukoion] does not properly mean snowflake, or some such flower.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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He still spoke her name awkwardly as if he thought it an impertinence to use so familiar a form of address.
Slightly Married
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I have been in politics a while - not long enough, obviously - but I have been in politics a while and I have seen some examples of impertinence, cheek, and gall, but that last speech beats them all.
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Possibly, you don't give other people credit for unselfish motives; you are too suspicious; and what you call plain talk may seem impertinence to others -- don't you think?
'Firebrand' Trevison
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While the old man wandered around the castle at Dux, deploring the impertinence of the servants (they laughed at his old-fashioned cloth-of-gold coat and elaborate bow), he was composing a work of huge historical interest.
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On one side the North Atlantic, the metallic colour of frozen-to-death, smashes and grabs at the impertinence of human habitation with corpse-white fists.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Mark Twain
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If we consider how essential to such a masterpiece is inoculation of belief in the tender age of childhood, the system of missions appears no longer merely as the height of human importunity, arrogance, and impertinence, but also of absurdity; in so far as it does not confine itself to people who are still in the stage of _childhood_, such as the Hottentots, Kaffirs,
Essays of Schopenhauer
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The driver of that taxi-cab seemed to me familiar to the point of impertinence.
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The impertinence of inviting us to such a mean banquet!
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You think the thing said ‘Much impertinence is hydroscopic’?
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Only one other of his bloodline had ever tried to gain mastery over the artifact, and had been condemned for his impertinence.
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The "masher" is an impertinence, a nuisance; but never, dear madam, never a danger.
Stage Confidences
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But now, as to be silent of men's defects and vices is a piece of flattery, and flattery a degenerous and unworthy thing; yet, that all people may not promiscuously think themselves called upon to reprove and declare against whatsoever they see amiss in others, and so mistake that for charity and duty, which is indeed nothing else but sauciness and impertinence, it will be convenient to shew,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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To dwell on their technical excellences (the chief of which is the unerring precision with which the catalectic and acatalectic lines are arranged and interchanged) has a certain air of impertinence about it.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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I have heard to-day, that Lord and Lady Sheffield, who went to visit Mr. Gibbon at Lausanne, met with great trouble and impertinence at almost every post in France. in Switzerland there is a furious spirit of democracy, or demonocracy.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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As she sat in the box looking on at this gross impertinence, she seemed to herself to be watching herself after a long/degringolade/, which had brought her, not to the gutter, but to the smart restaurant, the smart music-hall, the smart night club; the smart everything else that is beyond the borderland of even a lax society.
The Woman with the Fan
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Well, he drew a chair close to mine; and, after again enquiring how I did, said, in a low voice, You will pardon me, Miss Anville, if the eagerness I feel to vindicate myself, induces me to snatch this opportunity of making sincere acknowledgments for the impertinence with which I tormented you at the last ridotto.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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My indignation at their impertinence was swept away by my relief.
RESCUING ROSE
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Nevertheless, unlike other years, several of the participants seem to have minds and personalities of their own, an impertinence that hasn't gone down well with the judging panel.
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She even had the impertinence to lecture Loretta on how to be the wife of an eminent clergyman.
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You'll apologize to me for your impertinence, or you'll quit the office instantly!
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There he goes for a troublesome mischief-making tool," said Miss Vernon, as she gave a glance after him; it is hard that persons of birth and rank and estate should be subjected to the official impertinence of such a paltry pickthank as that, merely for believing as the whole world believed not much above a hundred years ago -- for certainly our Catholic
Rob Roy — Volume 01