- a variation of impudence.
impudency
Example Sentences
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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 Ben Jonson
The conscience of mankind was seduced or browbeaten by the impudency of self-love.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
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 Arthur Mee
What will not desperate impudency dare to aver?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.
From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
