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impertinence

[im-pur-tn-uhns] / ɪmˈpɜr tn əns /


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His dismay at Tehran’s recent impertinence, however, has occasioned helter-skelter statements.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Coach Matt Peet is normally poker-faced but laughed uproariously in the stand at the sheer impertinence and invention.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2024

For her part, Ms. Pinkston likened the treatment Mr. Wright suffered on the job to the impertinence all restaurant servers endure, regardless of race.

From New York Times Aug. 16, 2021

McCormack has a kind of 20th century sass, a lively impertinence you find in classic Hollywood comedians like Barbara Stanwyck, Irene Dunne and Rosalind Russell.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2020

"My lord father would call that insolence, and send you to the mines for impertinence."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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