impudency
Example Sentences
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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
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
I confess, indeed, that to compare myself unto him for aught I have yet said, were both impudency and arrogancy.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
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
Tut, fear not: I warrant thee he will do it of himself with much impudency.
From Every Man in His Humour by Jonson, Ben
