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
"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
Mistress Crawley now appeared, and, seizing Lucy by the shoulder, exclaimed,— 'You impudent child!
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
He looked at me, in silence, and I felt very little, and insignificant, and much like an impudent child who has stuck out its tongue at its elders.
From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Ferber, Edna
As the impudent child had said: "If people had no pasts, they would have no futures."
From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John
