impudent
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Before Standard Oil became “the most gigantic, the most cruel, impudent, pitiless, and grasping monopoly which ever fastened upon a community,” it was a start-up.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
He is impudent in court, which probably did him no favors.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024
“I’ll strike my words but I’m not apologizing,” returned Greene, with the gusto of an impudent teenager.
From Slate ● May 21, 2024
Yet the controversy had the effect of typecasting Gurba as the impudent indie writer willing to torch the publishing industry to make a point about diversity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
When I refused to be the child they knew and accepted me to be, I was called impudent and my muteness sullenness.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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