Impudence
['ɪmpjʊd(ə)ns]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Insolence, assurance, presumption, boldness, shamelessness, effrontery, rudeness, impertinence, sauciness, pertness, flippancy, brass, front, face, CHEEK.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Impertinence, insolence, assurance, effrontery, rudeness, sauciness,shamelessness, audacity, hardihood
ANT:Obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, sycophancy, flunkeyism, humility,[SeeMODESTY]
Typist: Natalie
Examples
- I told his impudence that the gilt pestle and mortar was quite ornament enough; as if I was born, indeed, to be a country surgeon's wife! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- HE won't be troubling me this morning, Jos thought, with his dandified airs and his impudence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It wasn't any impudence from any of them male paupers as--' 'No, no, love! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If it ain't stark staring impudence, what do you call it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You don't want impudence, that's very clear. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She was well paid for her impudence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- That's his impudence--that's his confounded impudence,' said Captain Boldwig. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Hurrah for impudence! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I wonder, now, Mr. St. Clare, what the impudence of you men will come to! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- All this was impudence and desecration, and he repented that he had brought her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And then you have the impudence to say you love me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Confound his impudence! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Yes, yes, Mr. Impudence, I know that very well, and I was determined to find out WHERE you had been to. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Why, sir,--Why, sir, swelling with rage, why--sir--d--- his impudence! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- These fellows dared not have acted with such inconceivable impudence, had they not been supported by some strong bands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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