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as in disrespect
disrespectful or argumentative talk given in response to a command or request
a disciplinarian of the old school, he refused to tolerate any impertinence from his children
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as in disrespectfulness
rude behavior
the impertinence of deliberately ignoring waiting customers while they finished their conversation
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as in irrelevance
the quality or state of not having anything to do with the matter at hand
the impertinence of that issue renders any discussion of it a waste of our time
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To a raging narcissist a plan is an impertinence, a Lilliputian restraint on the inspired instincts of a giant.
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Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 21 Dec. 2022
Of course the request seemed rude to Jean—in the sense that all work was an impertinence that placed her days in service to another.
—Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
His suggestion not to reply to the pronoun impertinence makes good sense.
—WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
For her part, Ms. Pinkston likened the treatment Mr. Wright suffered on the job to the impertinence all restaurant servers endure, regardless of race.
—New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
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Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 21 Dec. 2022
Of course the request seemed rude to Jean—in the sense that all work was an impertinence that placed her days in service to another.
—Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
His suggestion not to reply to the pronoun impertinence makes good sense.
—WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
For her part, Ms. Pinkston likened the treatment Mr. Wright suffered on the job to the impertinence all restaurant servers endure, regardless of race.
—New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
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And no disrespect to their skillsets, but neither is going to offer much in the way of rim protection.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
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The disrespect is real, and so is the potency of the seeds the Brazilian is planting ahead of a potential clash with DDP at 185 or 205 pounds.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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As Saylor explained in a recent BTC Prague interview, the company had to take a radical step to avoid fading into irrelevance.Julian Hayes II, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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And perhaps the irrelevance of regular linear time to what our imaginations seize upon has something to do with presenting as an explanation the steps or stages of a work in progress.Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Only this time, instead of sneering insolence, Matt Smith’s Daemon was near tears as the king ripped into his brother.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 21 July 2024
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Ever since Trump became a politician—and even before that—the most familiar images of him have been designed and disseminated by those who oppose him, to emphasize his insolence or his aura of threat.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 14 July 2024
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Dislikes include rudeness, evil symbiotes and sonic blasts.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
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From Grandmother’s point of view, what is that but flagrant rudeness, deserving to be defied?Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
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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.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
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For many enslaved people, a mistress’s complaint of impudence could end in a beating.Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
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“Impertinence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impertinence. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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