Impertinently
[ɪm'pɝtnəntli]
Definition
(adv.) in an impudent or impertinent manner; 'a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently'.
Checker: Velma--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In an impertinent manner.
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Examples
- And how proudly and impertinently I spoke to him that day! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I am not impertinently curious, but have a good object. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Credit me, it is better to enjoy the good which God sends thee, than to be impertinently curious how it comes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She meant to be impertinently curious, just as such an Anne Cox should be. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was broken by Lucy, who renewed the subject again by saying, with some hesitation, I cannot bear to have you think me impertinently curious. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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