impudent child
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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
"What are you laughing at, you bold, impudent child?"
From A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"I hope your royal highness knows this impudent child well enough not to put any faith in her words," said Madame von Morien, evasively, not daring to claim the letter as her property.
From Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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 Edna Ferber
There was one, the size of an ordinary fowl, which had been in existence—after egg life I mean—a few days, and swaggered about the premises like an impudent child.
From Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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