How To Use pertinence In A Sentence
- In the academic practice of moral philosophy and the philosophy of science, Simplicio's voice has been hard to hear, but Toulmin wants to amplify it and insist on its pertinence.
- 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
- I consider his remark a gross impertinence.
- This concern reflects the pertinence of these issues to student life.
- 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
- The driver of that taxi-cab seemed to me familiar to the point of impertinence.
- 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.
- 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
- All speech would have been an intrusion and any physical contact an impertinence. ULTIMATE PRIZES
- 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.