impertinence
Example Sentences
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Impertinence, hauteur, sudden repentance, happiness, rebellion and fatigue supplant each other with lightning speed on her mobile, adolescent face.
From Time Magazine Archive
Impertinence to a teacher was almost a reformatory offense in Brooklyn.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
They ought to lay aside Affectation and Impertinence, and come to a right understanding i' th' matter.
From The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) by Baker, Thomas, fl. 1700-1709
"I never heard of such—" "Impertinence," he supplied, gravely.
From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean
Opposite to this Folly is another no less unreasonable, and that is the Impertinence of being always in a Hurry.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Vocabulary lists containing impertinence
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Grade 11, List 4
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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