impudency
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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 Shakespeare, William
What will not desperate impudency dare to aver?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
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
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
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
