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
"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
As the impudent child had said: "If people had no pasts, they would have no futures."
From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John
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)
Mistress Crawley now appeared, and, seizing Lucy by the shoulder, exclaimed,— 'You impudent child!
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
