Impudent
['ɪmpjʊd(ə)nt] or ['ɪmpjədənt]
Definition
(adj.) marked by casual disrespect; 'a flip answer to serious question'; 'the student was kept in for impudent behavior' .
Edited by Daniel--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy.
Checker: Mimi
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insolent, insulting, presumptuous, bold, shameless, impertinent, rude, saucy, pert, flippant, cool, brazen, forward, bold-faced, brazen-faced.
Typed by Cyril
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Impertinent, insolent, saucy, shameless, brazen-faced, rude, bold, immodest
ANT:Servile, obsequious, sycophantic, bashful, retiring, diffident, deferential,modest
Edited by Babbage
Definition
adj. wanting shame or modesty: brazen-faced: bold: rude: insolent.—n. Im′pudence.—adv. Im′pudently.—n. Impudic′ity.
Typist: Perry
Examples
- Work'us, don't be impudent. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He shook his head, and said that the boy had been impudent and disobedient, ever since he bought him; that he was going to break him in, once for all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I don't grant her the power to be impudent to me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The worst is, the wasps are impudent enough to dispute it with one, even at the very crisis and summit of enjoyment. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mind that, you impudent old harridans. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Miss Clapp, grown quite a young woman now, is declared by the soured old lady to be an unbearable and impudent little minx. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Did you ever see such an impudent rascal, my dear Sophia? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My friend Rosabella permitted her interesting son to pass a week with my impudent nephew, George Woodcock, on our return to Paris. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You two are restless, meddling, impudent scoundrels, whose chief motive-principle is a selfish ambition, as dangerous as it is puerile. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- D----d impudent rascal! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What an impudent blunderer this fellow is,' said Pott, turning from pink to crimson. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The young man was not vulgarly bold nor impudent, and his eyes fell under my fixed gaze. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A red-faced man with large whiskers, and most impudent in his manner. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You are always a beggar, you know; but when you do that, you are an impudent beggar. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You are an impudent fellow! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Still Meyler was such a sturdy, true, obstinate, English country gentleman, as to pronounce the man half-bred, impudent, and a bore. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The most rebellious, saucy, impudent dog! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When you take the liberty of calling me mean or base, or anything of that sort, you are an impudent beggar. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There, you impudent dog! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She's an impudent woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Why, Mr. St. Clare's so impudent! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That is a fiction--an impudent invention to vex me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As soon as they had gone far enough, Ursula said, her cheeks burning, 'I do think she's impudent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I mentioned what they had said about her, and she laughed, and told me they were impudent fellows who talked nonsense--but I knew it pleased her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Most impudent he was! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Gudrun is really impudent, insolent, making herself the measure of everything, making everything come down to human standards. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Who--who--who, he said, stammering with rage, who asked this impudent fanatic into the house? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- What an impudent thing that cook is! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In the evening he walked softly home, this impudent wretch following, and insulting him all the way with the most scurrilous language. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Perry