How to Use impertinent in a Sentence

impertinent

adjective

• She asked a few impertinent questions.
• Father Byrne got up, exchanged words with the impertinent young man, and returned to his seat.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
• The series cuts the tension and taboo with keen humor, often bordering on the impertinent, but Sam is never the butt of the joke.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
• That used to be an easy—if impertinent—question to answer.
  — April Long, Town & Country, 23 June 2023
• But, at the risk of being impertinent, Toyoda-San: Why isn’t that figure 100%?
  — WSJ, 19 Apr. 2019
• The founder’s family then made headlines with a brawl that involved an impertinent chauffeur, two stepchildren and a wrench.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• Members of a generation who care more about etiquette would not write rude, impertinent letters in the first place.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• As Alanna Dale, Leah Strasser begins the show with a playful and impertinent monologue.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 29 July 2017
• In the 35th year of its existence, the team most of America had dismissed as an impertinent wallflower is going dancing.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• But to make their case, the justices have stepped away from the bench and into the public square, defending the status quo against impertinent, often partisan critics.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 1 Oct. 2021
• The big thing bugging Danny, though, is the impertinent presence of Roberta (Aubrey Plaza), who wants to move past drunken conversation and kick up some kind of romance.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Much of his energy was devoted to dodging impertinent questions, of which there were many.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• Ron Livingston has built a career on playing the jerk who just can’t keep the impertinent thoughts percolating in his brain from spewing onto everyone in his path.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Pelé was the vanguard of global soccer during its rowdy, impertinent 1970s campaign to convert the United States.
  — James Zug, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
• And from the driver's seat, the thing looks racy, sporting a short, fallaway hood and sweeping lines (accentuated in the CRX by the roof tapering down behind your head to an impertinent little ducktail).
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• Finally, there is that impertinent exhaust snarl Mazda worked so hard to capture.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 26 Dec. 2022
• In some programs, such an outspoken sophomore might be dismissed as impertinent.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Yet somehow, the idea persists that actually asking for it is impertinent.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2023
• An informer comes to tell Mr. Hayat that people are beginning to wonder about the foreigner who is asking impertinent questions.
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020
• These people, and the free press that serves them, have every right to demand answers to their questions, no matter how inconvenient or impertinent the President and his cabinet secretaries may find the queries.
  — Errol Louis, CNN, 12 May 2017
• Audiences seek controversy not just to open their minds, not just to annoy their betters, but because to hear impertinent, unapproved talk feels like freedom.
  — WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• That hasn’t stopped some of the French press from gleefully speculating, led by Le Canard Enchaîné, the ever-impertinent satirical weekly.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• During last year’s Himalayan standoff, the same newspaper launched a series of diatribes against impertinent India.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• Mary has strict expectations for the nanny, especially around the management of her impertinent 6-year-old, Lucy, for whom Mary has developed an elaborate set of rules about exercise and diet.
  — Vulture, 8 Feb. 2023
• There were gleeful pigs decorated with pink flowers and impertinent lions with diamond tails.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2021
• Almost certain to be passed, especially after Facebook’s stunt, its broad support across the political spectrum has been shored up by perceptions of an impertinent Facebook testing the nation’s resolve.
  — James Slezak, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
• Most of us experience these unhappy musings but can dismiss them as unreasonable and therefore impertinent.
  — Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• Random pertinent and impertinent observations from a real basketball game!
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024