How To Use Impertinent In A Sentence
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How immensely impertinent is the prejudice that forbids so natural a use of money! why should the better half of a man's actions be always under the dominion of some prescriptive slavery; 'Tis hideous to think of.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Sauce: Heaping containerful Dijon Mustard (I misused intact caryopsis condiment) 2 tablespoons canola oil 2 tablespoons vinegar and citrus Garlic of garlic pauses Litter containerful (if you can not use honey) Seasoner and assail Impertinent Abandon, yellowness juice Preserved almonds gently; One-third cup slivered almonds Teaspoon canola oil Teaspoon abolitionist dulcify Compound: 1.
UH Watch
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I hope you don't feel that I am being impertinent to you in raising those matters with you.
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All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles.
The Wind Bloweth
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impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup
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Aghazal played the cithara and sang all the lovely longing thoughts Akantha dared not speak aloud, and Adalana, with her flute, was an impertinent skylark who served as a go-between.
Wildfire
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The word impertinent has appeared in 12 New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 4 in "Hermès Is Selling Its Stake in Gaultier's Fashion House," by Suzy Menkes and David Jolly:
NYT > Home Page
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He loved everything there, animated or inanimated; the very mud of the riverside; the very alligators, enormous and stolid, basking on it with impertinent unconcern.
An Outcast Of The Islands
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She discouraged impertinent curiosity with frozen silence and there is an uneasy feeling, as one reads, that one is prying into her chosen privacy.
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Her eyes fell on a stranger, staring at her in a cool impertinent way.
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Impertinently a barrette on muscadet and topside a gaga synchronal lomatia tippler to depersonalization the scolytidae of the estivation garboil in resale.
Rational Review
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There are several theories about this, ranging from the dull (a goat might have been the prize at the Dionysia), to the moderately convincing (goats may once have been sacrificed to choral song, which evolved into tragedy as we know it, like in Antigone, etc.), to the highly impertinent (choral singers were young men much like goats in that they were hairy, smelly, and licentious).
Small joys « paper fruit
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This impertinent and malicious insinuation made some impression upon the bystanders, and furnished ample field for slander to asperse the morals of Trunnion, who was represented through the whole district as a monster of barbarity.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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For an agonizing 20 minutes, he politely fielded a volley of impertinent questions.
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It is a comely thing even for a saint to be well-clothed about with humility, and the deepest valley is safer and seemlier walking for a lame man than the mountain-top; and so on, till Rutherford admitted that Robert Gordon's warnings were neither impertinent nor untimeous.
Samuel Rutherford
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The great, the good and the rich rule their fiefdoms without having to put up with any impertinent interference from the people who do most of the work or buy the goods.
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Elinor gently remonstrated with him on the meanness and absurdity of such conduct; but he silenced what he termed her impertinent interference in matters which did not concern her.
Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
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The main reason I haven't been to California before is their impertinent, nannyish tobacco fatwa.
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It was impertinent of him to behave like that.
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Occasionally it even becomes necessary to whistle aside some impertinent kongoni that has placed himself between the metals!
African Camp Fires
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The old codger had always struck him as slightly impertinent.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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The waiter was brusque to the point of being rude and impertinent, messed up the orders and was not particularly responsive.
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Then he gave her a barley scone and said, “I love not one who answereth at times when I am in wrath: so henceforth give me no more of these impertinent words and I will sell thee to a good man like myself, who will do well with thee, even as I have done.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The results, always impertinent and delightful, can be both startling and surprising.
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The replacement, Enduring Freedom, was well-received in U.S. mass media, an irony-free zone where only the untowardly impertinent might suggest that some people had no choice other than to endure the Pentagon's freedom to bomb.
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One shouldn't ask such impertinent questions.
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Dave did something more reporters should do more often in our media culture: Ask an impertinent question, and then try to find the answer.
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Charles Collins is to be married at Christmas. all the friends who once so highly esteemd & loved him, have now but one opinion of his character — that he is equally vain impertinent cold-hearted & selfish.
Letter 169
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On the latest, Mr.A. J. Duffield's, it would be in every sense of the word impertinent in me to offer an opinion here.
Don Quixote
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It is so frustrating that the bleached images of the alien world are so ruggedly handsome and so unjustified and impertinent to the plot at the same time.
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At the very least that sometimes means asking impertinent questions.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems impertinent to talk of successors while such a great cricketer is still in harness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Excessive and reduce weight impertinently, the likelihood is in adipose reductive at the same time, harmonious sexual love and happiness of husband and wife also will are far from.
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A lot of systems and service can invade Zhang date ascribe is insecure with impertinent password, some virus software and vermian virus can guess a simpler password.
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Prudie has long felt that the reflexive, polite demur is not necessary when people are impertinently out of line, either with their advice or their questions.
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We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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Driving was impertinent enough to ask how much they cost, and when we couldn't pin down a manufacturer we took soundings from supercar dealers.
Times, Sunday Times
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His films are so light and lovely, and because of that, they are impertinent - cheeky and challenging in their very untimeliness, like Nietzsche's ‘untimely meditations’.
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I am glad I kept my impertinent trap shut two years ago, and I am now looking forward immensely to watching the drama next Tuesday night.
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It would be impertinent to suggest that he was always wrong.
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Besides a foolish and feeble pride, an impertinent prating, froward and insociable humours, superstition, and a ridiculous desire of riches when we have lost the use of them, I find there more envy, injustice, and malice.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 14
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Spring comes early in the sheltered, southern bay of Monkshaven, and already the bracken was sending up pushful little shoots of young green, curled like a baby's fist, while the primroses, bunched together in clusters, thrust peering faces impertinently above the green carpet of the woods.
The Hermit of Far End
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She was an impertinent child who displayed no respect for me or this city of ours.
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Must it needs be, that a daughter of the same father and mother must be more silly, more unsteady, more ab-surd, more impertinent, than her brother?
Sir Charles Grandison
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I suppose you think I'm rude and impertinent, barging in here and insisting I knew you.
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Belfield, with great indignation, demanded what he meant by the term impertinent fellow; and Sir Robert yet more insolently repeated it:
Cecilia
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And the impertinent patronage of worshippers in "fustian" is at least as offensive as the older-fashioned vulgarity of pride in congregations who "come in their own carriages.
Jan of the Windmill
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But if you introduce such a mixture into the stomach, and thence into the brain of an already fiery Bedouin; and then introduce the Bedouin to trouble; and if, in addition to the trouble, you provide impertinent, alien, and what he calls infidel restraint, it is fair to presume that the mixture might explode.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
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Not a civil servant in their houses, asking all sorts of impertinent questions.
The Sun
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It seems a bit impertinent to ask if this relationship needs a license to endure.
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They can ask us the most impertinent or rude questions but, obviously, we cannot ask, hint at or even think about anything approaching the same.
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Nature says, He is my creature, and mauger all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.
Initial Studies in American Letters
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True; and how much more impertinent is it to give your advice when you can know nothing about the truth, and admit you could not inquire into it.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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She was idle at her lessons and extremely saucy, and she was a quaint little thing, so that sometimes she seemed to be impertinent when she really did not intend it, though I must own that at other times she _did_ intend it as much as any other young lady seven years old possibly could.
Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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The word rankled now that Charmian had spoken out with such almost impertinent abruptness.
The Way of Ambition
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There is another species of learned men, who, though less dogmatical and supercilious, are not less impertinent.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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I hope he didn't think me impertinent when I asked him about his private life.
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In a less statist society, the very idea of a legal work week, except perhaps for minors and pregnant women, would probably be regarded as weird, presumptuous and actually impertinent.
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And this step is an impertinent intrusion in peoples' personal lives.
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This was an impertinent, uninvited guest who was overstepping the mark.
COMPULSION
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Here, on a little spinning, askew-axised thing we call a planet -- (impertinently enough, since we are far more planetary ourselves).
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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For an agonizing 20 minutes, he politely fielded a volley of impertinent questions.
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More liberties," Janet indignantly declared, and after the first visitation or two she resolutely set her face against what she called the answering of impertinent questions.
Janet's Love and Service
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My impertinent classmate chimed in: ‘What, Miss, is a good mark for a parachute packer?’
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You keep asking impertinent questions: do you have a better health plan than the rest of us?
Times, Sunday Times
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We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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George W. Bush writes in his new memoir that in his younger, wilder days, he once boozily turned to a lady at one of his parents 'dinner parties with an impertinent question: "So what is sex like after 50?
Read this: George W. Bush on "sex after 50," Cheney, Kanye
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Impertinent claim: Today's president is content merely to reiterate the statement that history is "replete" with instances (about 200, he said last week) when presidents have used force without congressional authorization.
Once Again, Ike Was Right
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She has left us this bright folio of her "lightning and fragrance in one," scintillant with stardust as perhaps no other before her, certainly not in this country, none with just her celestial attachedness, or must we call it detachedness, and withal also a sublime, impertinent playfulness which makes her images dance before one like offspring of the great round sun, fooling zealously with the universes at her feet, and just beyond her eye, with a loftiness of spirit and of exquisite trivialness seconded by none.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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All of us, that is, have a child-reader within asking shrewd and impertinent questions.
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It gave me the chance to march up to people and ask impertinent questions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The building committee's defence of the institution attempted to deflect the serious charge of proselytism by criticizing the second special committee for unmanly and impertinent behaviour.
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Nature says, — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.
Nature
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It would be rather impertinent for me to come into their lives at the ages they are now and consider myself in that role,' she says.
Times, Sunday Times
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mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point
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But how malicious and impertinent is this creature to talk to me in such
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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These are impertinent questions, and their only aim is to reduce any claims as much as possible.
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ROBERTS: Michael, in the past 48 hours after that press conference there's been some buzz on conservative blogs that you were a bit of a yaba (ph) at that press conference, you were heckling Senator McCain, you were asking impertinent questions.
CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2007
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He deals very well with even the most impertinent questions.
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However the compilation fits together so seamlessly that it would be rather impertinent to keep on discussing individual items.
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“Yonder is the witness that swore I helped to rob the California coach—a piece of impertinent intermeddling, sir, for I am not even acquainted with the man.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Admittedly, the question was cheeky, perhaps even a little impertinent.
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We are too impertinent with the past, counting on it in this way for a reliable frisson.
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I have been told by some of the publicists associated with the movie that I'm a little impertinent to be leading any chorus in that direction.
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The impertinent guest, who shall remain nameless, even had the temerity to charge it to his host's account - a prominent champagne house.
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There were complaints about my inability to join in, my tendency to ask impertinent questions, my failure to memorise my times tables.
Times, Sunday Times
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The students believed that the goal of their required first-year course was to improve their writing, and for that reason my effort to pose writing as a subject of analysis was misguided at best and at worst impertinent and irrelevant.
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With a camera in hand, she was free to ask the impertinent questions that would emancipate society from its sexual repression.
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It seems impertinent to talk of successors while such a great cricketer is still in harness.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are in these uninterrupted hundred minutes valuable insights, humorous anecdotes, pertinent and impertinent asides.
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It would have been impertinent to talk about pay or pensions; but about land mines I hoped that I might receive a hearing, as the Member of Parliament most often nearly blown up by them.
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The male is used by now to attacking all intruders, so his first reaction is to direct a threat display at this impertinent female.
Times, Sunday Times
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The work began to display a tendency towards regular rhythmic pulse, consonant intervals and an impertinent use of the then forbidden octave.
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Absolutely, Bellville, if I do condescend, which is yet extremely doubtful, we will live in the style of lovers; I hate the dull road of common marriages: no impertinent presuming on the name of husband; no saucy freedoms; I will continue to be courted, and shall expect as much flattery, and give myself as many scornful airs, as if I had never honored you with my hand.
The history of Lady Julia Mandeville
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It would be impertinent to suggest that he was always wrong.
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It seems impertinent to say it of so great a player, but it remains a work in progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's no choice but to speak ill of the dead and ask impertinent questions about the emperor's clothes.
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A couple of years ago a bunch of them sat through a four-hour meeting with yours truly and answered a whole lot of questions, both pertinent and impertinent.
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Milton had postponed his poem, in 1641, till "the land had once enfranchished herself from this impertinent yoke of prelatry, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.
Milton
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The South Korean impertinent allegations are only aimed at provoking fratricidal confrontation and inciting hatred," said Choi.
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Shouting for it to stop, he propped his charge against a wall and went to remonstrate with the impertinent driver.
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his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air
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I wish I could once clearly understand the state of your mind about Mr Vincent, and then I should be able to judge how far I might indulge myself in raillery without being absolutely impertinent.
Belinda
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Dancing around adversaries who had thought him just an impertinent youngster, he proved a formidable controversialist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cyclops the Whip-bearer, until I observed that his skill made whips useless, except to fetch off an impertinent fly from a leader's head, upon which I changed his Grecian name to _Cyclops Diphrelates_
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
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Now, that is esteemed foolishness which is looked on either as weak and impertinent, or as that which contains or expresseth means and ends disproportionate, or as that which is undesirable in comparison of what may be set up in competition with it, or is on any other consideration not eligible or to be complied with on the terms whereon it is proposed.
Pneumatologia
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You keurig k cups to go at him with a few skilfully dispossession, devotedly passim distressfully and tael a afternoon or else your atherosclerosis disturbance be impertinently masked and undramatically orad as each as reciprocally to ashamedly.
Rational Review
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I hope he didn't think me impertinent when I asked him about his private life.
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Without any exception, he was the "fussiest," most impertinent, most disagreeable man that I ever knew.
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
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She is too free with her tongue and is rather impertinent to people.
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Sauce: Heaping containerful Dijon Mustard (I misused intact caryopsis condiment) 2 tablespoons canola oil 2 tablespoons vinegar and citrus Garlic of garlic pauses Litter containerful (if you can not use honey) Seasoner and assail Impertinent Abandon, yellowness juice Preserved almonds gently; One-third cup slivered almonds Teaspoon canola oil Teaspoon abolitionist dulcify Compound: 1.
UH Watch
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I happened to be in the shop one day -- it was when you were living idle at your father's expense, young man -- and I heard you speak to him in what I call a confoundedly impertinent way.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
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Mr. Croker is perpetually stopping us in our progress through the most delightful narrative in the language, to observe that really Dr. Johnson was very rude, that he talked more for victory than for truth, that his taste for port wine with capillaire in it was very odd, that Boswell was impertinent, that it was foolish in Mr.. Thrale to marry the music-master; and so forth.
Famous Reviews
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As impertinent questions go,'have you had a facelift?
Times, Sunday Times
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To be sure, the book has a good deal to say about how the curious - virtuosi, novelists, journalists, impertinent women, collectors, connoisseurs, and so on - were represented.
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Sauce: Heaping containerful Dijon Mustard (I misused intact caryopsis condiment) 2 tablespoons canola oil 2 tablespoons vinegar and citrus Garlic of garlic pauses Litter containerful (if you can not use honey) Seasoner and assail Impertinent Abandon, yellowness juice Preserved almonds gently; One-third cup slivered almonds Teaspoon canola oil Teaspoon abolitionist dulcify Compound: 1.
UH Watch
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In this view it becomes of no mean importance to notice and record the strangest ignorance, the most putid fables, impertinent, trifling, ridiculous disputes, and more ridiculous pugnacity in the defence and retention of the subjects disputed.
Literary Remains, Volume 1