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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
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impudent
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synonyms: hardihood, impertinent, insolence, asperity, cheeky, malapert ???
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Definition:rude; insolent
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With a foolish smile Pyotr raised his hat, with its colored band, at the window, in token of farewell; an impudent conductor slammed the door and the latch.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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Sometimes he talked to her of the Records Department and the impudent forgeries that he committed there. Such things did not appear to horrify her.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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Percy: Oh, come now, Baldrick. A piffling thousand? Pay the fellow, Edmund, and damn his impudence!
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Money
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