impertinent

Example Sentences

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Eleanor can be so impertinent, yet the audience still has to like her.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

In the past, words or phrases deemed to have stepped over the line include "impertinent dog", "cad", "blethering", "guttersnipe" and "git".

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023

I will not appear to condone the diminishment of any group at the expense of impertinent gestures toward another group for any reason, even when the law of the land appears to require it.’”

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Ambassador Staffan Herrstrom was told that the "impertinent and ugly expression and images" about Erdogan and Turkey were unacceptable, Anadolu said.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2022

He dismissed them as “childish, vulgar, flaunting, or impertinent, out of place and discordant.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson