impudency

Example Sentences

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After suffering a cannonade, the commandant proposed to evacuate Wexford on terms which "manifested the impudency of the men."

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

O, now stand close; pray Heaven, she can get him to read! he should do it of his own natural impudency.

From Every Man in His Humor by Jonson, Ben

Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.—Shakespeare.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Puritan women also were not above reproach in regard to the fashion of extravagant hair-dressing; they also "showed the vile note of impudency."

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse

The conscience of mankind was seduced or browbeaten by the impudency of self-love.

From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Gosse, Edmund