Adjective : a brash, impertinent youth. ,an impertinent detail. From Dictionary.com.
No, no, not impertinently, neither; yet you distress me. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
My body shuts in her face, impertinently, like a parasol. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
And in his answer he makes the old man impertinently brag: —. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
"Why didn't you tell him, then?" suggested Sarah impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
"Well, I don't see any madness yet," Gloha remarked impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
And she was obliged constantly to dodge impertinently staring men. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
"I meant to tell you where I had been," Beth answered impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
He excused himself and thought that he had not spoken so impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She spoke the last word emphatically, and with a glance impertinently sly. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
Beth looked at him, then drew down the corners of her mouth impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
"Did he send you to me?" she replied, impertinently taking me for a waiter. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
"She meant to be impertinently curious, just as such an Anne Cox should be.". From Wordnik.com. [Emma]
“She meant to be impertinently curious, just as such an Anne Cox should be.”. From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
He laughed impertinently in my face, and asked me what I proposed to do about it. From Wordnik.com. [Commandant of Auschwitz]
But, like Don Quixote, we take part against the puppets, and quite as impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Walpole, and, as Walpole did not immediately answer, he wrote to him quite impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The inscription had faded somewhat in the two years since it had so impertinently appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
Possibly pecking impertinently in your garbage or mauling some hapless furry rodent-like thing. From Wordnik.com. [weeme Diary Entry] Reference
I cannot admit anything gaudy, needlessly exotic, or impertinently obtruding the idea of dollars. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
For a little the big room, bright with lamplight, was so still that the clock ticked impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
And therefore also the woman not impertinently answered him again, "We know the Messias shall come.". From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
"Who are you, I should like to know?" asked the clerk impertinently, "that you are laying down the law.". From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
It seemed that the King's magic talent was making the inanimate talk, and talk it did, of impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
"I thought it was a desire to enquire after the health of your favourite niece," hazarded Nan impertinently. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
He still did not know what he would say to her, though, what he would ask, how impertinently he would probe. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Married]
"Is that seat big enough for two, Ma'amselle?" he asked impertinently, though the heart in him was thumping a bit. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Sometimes we shall meet with those, who perhaps indifferently enough, but at the same time impertinently, will ask the. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)] Reference
"Evil is mighty, but the good must eventually prevail," he observed, impertinently cocking his snub nose toward heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
After dinner we withdrew into another apartment, where the boy began to be impertinently troublesome to my niece Liddy. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference
That the man is here said to be full of leprosy; the passage may not impertinently be compared with Leviticus 13: 12,13. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Madam (said he, very impertinently angry) you would not do thus to Mr. Greville: you would not do thus to any man but me. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
I was not impertinently inquisitive, and he affected to have reasons for avoiding any more particular devellopement of the Mystery. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778] Reference
In ten words he gave his approval to my having impertinently imposed Arab Governments, here and at Deraa, upon the chaos of victory. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
He pauses, and looks round with such an impertinently confident air, that three waverers in the party amidships slip nearer to hear him. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
A gentleman will not stand on the street corners, or in hotel doorways, or store windows and gaze impertinently at ladies as they pass by. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
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