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’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
"I hope your royal highness knows this impudent child well enough not to put any faith in her words," said Madame von Morien, evasively, not daring to claim the letter as her property.
From Frederick the Great and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
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
As the impudent child had said: "If people had no pasts, they would have no futures."
From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John
