impertinence

How To Use impertinence In A Sentence

• The impertinence of inviting us to such a mean banquet!
• I have been in politics a while - not long enough, obviously - but I have been in politics a while and I have seen some examples of impertinence, cheek, and gall, but that last speech beats them all.
• “Much impertinence is hydroscopic,” said the speaker on the translator console. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
• “A troublesome, inquisitive old gentleman,” said Tyrrel to himself; “I remember him narrowly escaping the bastinado at Smyrna, for thrusting his advice on the Turkish cadi — and then I lie under a considerable obligation to him, giving him a sort of right to annoy me — Well, I must parry his impertinence as I can.” Saint Ronan's Well
• Miss Vernon, as she gave a glance after him; it is hard that persons of birth and rank and estate should be subjected to the official impertinence of such a paltry pickthank as that, merely for believing as the whole world believed not much above a hundred years ago --- for certainly our Catholic Faith has the advantage of antiquity at least. '' Rob Roy
• Kaspar Campèll, who in the first half of the sixteenth century preached the Reformed religion in the Engadine.] [Footnote 4: I have translated and printed at the end of the second volume some sonnets of Petrarch as a kind of palinode for this impertinence.] [Footnote 5: This begs the question whether [Greek: leukoion] does not properly mean snowflake, or some such flower. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
• He still spoke her name awkwardly as if he thought it an impertinence to use so familiar a form of address. Slightly Married
• I have been in politics a while - not long enough, obviously - but I have been in politics a while and I have seen some examples of impertinence, cheek, and gall, but that last speech beats them all.
• Possibly, you don't give other people credit for unselfish motives; you are too suspicious; and what you call plain talk may seem impertinence to others -- don't you think? 'Firebrand' Trevison
• While the old man wandered around the castle at Dux, deploring the impertinence of the servants (they laughed at his old-fashioned cloth-of-gold coat and elaborate bow), he was composing a work of huge historical interest.