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

"All these questions are very impertinent, I know, but if there is still a feeling in your heart for me… you must let me know!"

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2024

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

The fictional Cunk, played by the actress Diane Morgan, is confident, impertinent and almost always wrong.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

“She caught up her knitting, which had dropped out of her hands, gave me a sharp look through her specs, and said, in her short way, ‘Finish the chapter, and don’t be impertinent, miss’.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott