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impertinent
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synonyms: impudent, insolent, ~hardihood, ~asperity ???
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Definition:rude; contrary to the social norms of good manners; presumptuous
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Uses:
Blackadder: You should have knocked.
Keanrick: Our knocks, impertinent butler, were loud enough to wake the hounds of hell!
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Sense and Senility
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In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood. For what? To strengthen, support, or propagate the impertinent conjectures of some enthusiasts, or to give validity to the cheats of impostors, in the name of a being, who exists only in their imagination, and who has made himself known only by the ravages, disputes, and follies, he has caused.
Baron D'Holbach. Good Sense (1772)
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"I don't like the look of it at all," said the King: "however, it may kiss my hand if it likes."
"I'd rather not," the Cat remarked.
"Don't be impertinent," said the King
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Argan: Your Molière is a fine impertinent fellow with his comedies! I think it mightily pleasant of him to go and take off honest people like the doctors.
Molière. The Imaginary Invalid
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I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
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but at his forehead, astounded at the impertinence of his question.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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If you do not choose to understand me, forgive my impertinence.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Jones decided to risk impertinence. He'd earned a little tolerance. "We wait or we chase, sir?"
Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, p.216 (1984)
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This peroration annoyed the President; it was almost impertinence on the part of a mere lieutenant to tell a commander what was the extent of his powers.
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.162 (1935)
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