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/ɪmpjˈuːdəns/
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NOUN
- an impudent statement
- the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
How To Use impudence In A Sentence
- He had the impudence to correct me.
- Craigengelt had his own purposes in fooling him up to the top of his bent; and having some low humour, much impudence, and the power of singing a good song, understanding besides thoroughly the disposition of his regained associate, he headily succeeded in involving him bumper-deep in the festivity of the meeting. The Bride of Lammermoor
- One sister had the impudence to wear the other's clothes.
- What it was all in all, it seemed to Helen, was a per formance - an exercise in impudence stretched to the breaking-point. DEATH OF A NYMPH
- In each the larger animal keeps a contemptuous good humour; in each the smaller annoys him with wasp-like impudence, certain of practical immunity; in each we shall find a double life producing double characters, and an excursive and noisy heroism combined with a fair amount of practical timidity. Memories and Portraits
- But Lorillard's impudence, and the comfort it promised, did impress many men to order dinner jackets of their own for private stag events.
- There was none of the extreme 'bumptiousness' and pugnacious impudence of twenty years ago; indeed, the beach-boys, nowhere a promising class, were rather civil than otherwise. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
- To close this discourse, I shall only from it obviate a putid calumny cast by the Papists, Quakers, and others of the same confederacy, against the grace of God, upon the doctrine of the free justification of a sinner, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ: for with a shameless impudence they clamour on all by whom it is asserted, as those who maintain salvation to be attainable through a mere external imputation of righteousness; whilst those so saved are Pneumatologia
- Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense . But good men starve for want of impudence.
- Krusee is fiftyish, handsome, and blond, with the charm and slight impudence of someone who might have been a troublemaker as a child. Interstate 69