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UK
/ɪmpjˈuːdəns/
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NOUN
- an impudent statement
- the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
How To Use impudence In A Sentence
- Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense . But good men starve for want of impudence.
- Yet she could not help herself and paid dearly for this impudence.
- Here there has just taken place a "raid" rivalling in turpitude and impudence the famous deed of Bennett Young. Echoes of the Week
- The beldame has the impudence too, after she has brought me into this dilemma, to solicit my assistance to stock the farm anew! The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- 465 Her impudence is intended to be that of a captive Princess. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- He stared at me with a mixture of impudence and hostility.
- Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
- For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.
- Mortimer made half-accusations against the freshmen they had "frisked" earlier in the evening, and had been soundly trounced for their impudence. Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery
- The irascible Irishman replied that a Scotchman was the incarnation of impudence -- and hereupon a war of words ensued, until the officers 'attention was attracted and brought it to an abrupt conclusion. Six Years in the Prisons of England
