impudency
Example Sentences
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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.—Shakespeare.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
O, now stand close; pray Heaven, she can get him to read! he should do it of his own natural impudency.
From Every Man in His Humor by Jonson, Ben
Puritan women also were not above reproach in regard to the fashion of extravagant hair-dressing; they also "showed the vile note of impudency."
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
I confess, indeed, that to compare myself unto him for aught I have yet said, were both impudency and arrogancy.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
