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Impudent adj.

Behaving boldly, with contempt or disregard for propriety in behavior toward others; unblushingly forward; impertinent; saucy. "More than impudent sauciness." "When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent."

Lacking modesty; shameless. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Shameless; audacious; brazen; bold-faced; pert; immodest; rude; saucy; impertinent; insolent.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Impudent" Quotes from Famous Books

... most magnificently bound; but all won't do. He only says, "If she'd please me, she'd give up that cursed opera-box. Why, the rent of that thing—only to sit in and hear Italian women squealing and squalling, and to see impudent, outlandish baggages kicking up their heels higher than any decent heads ought to be—the rent, I say, would maintain a parish rector, or keep half-a-dozen parish schools a-going." As for her books, that all the world besides ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various

... And, farther, when our friend Paullus[469] was brought forward as a witness against Sestius, he affirmed that he would lay an information against Vatinius[470] if Licinius Macer hesitated to do so, and Macer, rising from Sestius's benches, declared that he would not fail. Need I say more? That impudent swaggering fellow Vatinius was overwhelmed with confusion and ...

— The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 - The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... through their Ministers, used barefacedly to inspire journalists to write the doctrine of waste of blood as being a natural process of dealing with the problem of overpopulation. History is pregnant with proof that their cry for peace was an impudent hypocrisy. They might have had it at any time, but this did not suit their policy of legitimacy. Countless thousands of human beings were slaughtered to satisfy the aversion of kings and nobles to the plan of one man who towered above them, and insisted on breaking up the nefarious ...

— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman

... him! was there ever man So very impudent?—A knave! he ought To be transported at the ...

— The Comedies of Terence • Publius Terentius Afer

... find some of the greatest rascals and most impudent liars in the "Synagogues and High Places" ...

— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford

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