impertinently

The Saab driver looked up the mountain road and then turned the Saab so that the rear was impertinently pointing up the hill.

“She meant to be impertinently curious, just as such an Anne Cox should be.”

I did this, perhaps impertinently, even with strangers; and it was a stranger, on the Northern line, who gave me the answer that has stayed with me the longest: “Tolerance.”

The king had claimed that magic was an affront to the Goddess and her gods—that to wield it was to impertinently imitate their power.

From wicker rockers on the lodge’s front porch, guests can watch the evening light flicker on the lake and enjoy the silence, until a motorboat impertinently buzzes by.