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my mother would not tolerate impudence from any of us
their impudence irritated everyone at the wedding reception
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Such calls for regulatory actions against short sellers are all based on the assumption that short selling is nefarious — that daring to take a negative view of a company’s stock is tantamount to market manipulation, especially if the short sellers have the impudence to publicize their viewpoint.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
For many enslaved people, a mistress’s complaint of impudence could end in a beating.
—Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
Winston Churchill, whose fiery resolve and puckish impudence led many to embrace him as an inspiring, authentic, if imperfect, leader, never set out to become an accomplished artist.
—Milton Esterow, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
Tenacity empowered Warhol to resubmit it a few months later to an elite summer group exhibition at the Arts and Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, where its impudence met an audience ready to eschew the normative and embrace the future.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
For many enslaved people, a mistress’s complaint of impudence could end in a beating.
—Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
Winston Churchill, whose fiery resolve and puckish impudence led many to embrace him as an inspiring, authentic, if imperfect, leader, never set out to become an accomplished artist.
—Milton Esterow, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
Tenacity empowered Warhol to resubmit it a few months later to an elite summer group exhibition at the Arts and Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, where its impudence met an audience ready to eschew the normative and embrace the future.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
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“Impudence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impudence. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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impudence
noun
im·pu·dence
ˈim-pyəd-ən(t)s 
: impudent behavior or speech : insolence, disrespect
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