- a variation of impudence.
impudency
Example Sentences
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Tut, fear not: I warrant thee he will do it of himself with much impudency.
From Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson
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 The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon
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
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 Alice Morse Earle
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
