Impertinence
[ɪm'pɜːt(ə)nəns;ɪm'pɜːtɪnəns]
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.
(n.) Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.
(n.) That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no value.
Typist: Malcolm
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Irrelevance, irrelevancy.[2]. Rudeness, intrusiveness, impudence, insolence, incivility, sauciness, forwardness, boldness, presumption, effrontery, pertness, assurance, face, front, brass, CHEEK, brazen face.
Typed by Laverne
Examples
- It seemed all at once to take the shape of an impertinence on her part; she read this meaning too in the man's eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When I spoke again I was composed enough to treat his impertinence with the silent contempt that it deserved. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Is it possible that you seriously wish to avoid all this impertinence? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The impertinence made his veins go cold, he was insensible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If you do not choose to understand me, forgive my impertinence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It would be an impertinence elsewhere, but it is not so here, to ask your name and condition? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But it is mere impertinence in me to offer any recommendation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I should not have the impertinence to do it again after what you say. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her exquisite superiority and innate refinement ought, one would think, to scare impertinence from her very idea. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The fact is I gloried in being a match for Meyler's vile impertinence. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I felt it before noticing the impertinence directed at my mother. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There might have been a touch of impertinence in the last words; on the other hand, it might have been but the native grace of Mr Fledgeby's manner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I know but little of art, so it would be an impertinence of me to talk about that of which I am ignorant. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no style, no beauty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- SIR, Respect for your cloth will prevent my having the pleasure of blowing out your brains for your impertinence. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- How there were more years; more impertinences, ignorances, and insults. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You must go away from here and from the impertinences of these men. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How the impertinences, ignorances, and insults went through the multiplication table. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Edited by Aaron