impertinence
Example Sentences
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He sought an introduction to me and forthwith stared at me with ill-mannered inquiries about my sales income and such like impertinences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mouse Last week gabby old George Bernard Shaw tripped through the U. S. Southwest leaving columns of commonplace impertinences in his wake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Canadians flinched and chortled at the brash impertinences and superficialities of The People's Mouths, also found many an acid tintype of their politicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
These impertinences irritated him so much that several times he almost wrote a letter to the newspapers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once she thought of warning her about the scorpions, but Meme was so distant, convinced that she had given her away, that she preferred not to disturb her with the impertinences of a great-great-grandmother.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing impertinence
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Grade 11, List 4
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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