impudent child

Example Sentences

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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

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 Ferber, Edna

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

He’s much too good a chap to go on mistering him,” answered this impudent child, with a decisive nod of her pretty head.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram

As the impudent child had said: "If people had no pasts, they would have no futures."

From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John