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

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)

"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)

"Lulu, you are the most impudent child I ever saw!" she exclaimed, "and shall go without supper to-night, if it were only to punish you for talking as you have this morning."

From Grandmother Elsie by Finley, Martha