impudent child
Example Sentences
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She responded, coolly, on Twitter, in what felt like a mother dismissing an impudent child.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
As the impudent child had said: "If people had no pasts, they would have no futures."
From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John
"What are you laughing at, you bold, impudent child?"
From A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
"Lulu, you are the most impudent child I ever saw!" she exclaimed, "and shall go without supper to-night, if it were only to punish you for talking as you have this morning."
From Grandmother Elsie by Finley, Martha
He’s much too good a chap to go on mistering him,” answered this impudent child, with a decisive nod of her pretty head.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram
