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
It is no very hard matter to guess at the Source of this Impertinence, which is nothing else but a Method or Mechanick Art of being wise.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
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
To Love, and to be in Love with any thing, are Things as differing, as good Sense and Impertinence.
From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of
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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