Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being impertinent, especially.
- noun Insolence.
- noun Irrelevance.
- noun An impertinent act or statement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To treat with impertinence, rudeness, or incivility; affect as with impertinence.
- noun The condition or quality of being impertinent or irrelevant; the condition of not being appropriate to the matter in hand; irrelevance.
- noun That which is impertinent; that which is irrelevant or out of place, as in speech, writing, or manners.
- noun Conduct unbecoming the person, society, circumstances, etc.; incivility; presumption; forwardness.
- noun In law, matter (especially in a pleading or an affidavit) which is immaterial in substance, and from prolixity or extent is so inconvenient as to render its presence objectionable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition or quality of being impertinent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.
- noun Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.
- noun That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no value.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable Lack of
pertinence ;irrelevance . - noun countable An instance of this; a moment of being
impertinent . - noun uncountable The fact or character of being out of place;
inappropriateness . - noun
insolence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an impudent statement
- noun the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- noun inappropriate playfulness
Etymologies
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Examples
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And then with more apologies for what he called his impertinence, he took his leave, and I felt altogether very much pleased and flattered.
Uncle Silas 2003
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And then with more apologies for what he called his impertinence, he took his leave, and I felt altogether very much pleased and flattered.
Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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You think the thing said ‘Much impertinence is hydroscopic’?
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You think the thing said ‘Much impertinence is hydroscopic’?
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“Much impertinence is hydroscopic,” said the speaker on the translator console.
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“Much impertinence is hydroscopic,” said the speaker on the translator console.
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'I never thought well of her, pretending to drink nothing but water; and with that short, dry way, that I call impertinence; but I never thought she could be so lost till last night!
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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He expressed in strong terms his annoyance at what he called their impertinence, whilst I could not but laugh at his impatience, as well as at the mortification of the unfortunate pedestrians, whose eagerness to see him, I said, was, in my opinion, highly flattering to him.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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Very soon after, this anxiety was tinctured with a feeling more severe; he saw her spoken to negligently by Sir Sedley – he required, after what he had already himself deemed impertinence from the Baronet, that she should have assumed to him a distant dignity; but he perceived, on the contrary, that she answered him with pleasant alacrity, and, when not engaged by Mrs. Berlinton, attended to him, even with distinction.
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All the Branghtons called to take leave of me; but I will not write a word more about them: indeed I cannot, with any patience, think of that family, to whose forwardness and impertinence is owing all the uneasiness I at this moment suffer!
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778
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