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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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Recent Examples of impertinence
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impertinence
Noun
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The praise is rarely as loud as the disrespect when Ange gets it right.Ahmed Walid, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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Basically that poor enforcement had bred serious disrespect for the law, or at least a misunderstanding of it.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Nobody expected Army to be a modern-day powerhouse, but general football irrelevance and an annual broadside to morale was not an ideal regiment.Brian Hamilton, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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Its ability to enable rapid delivery and provide a digital-first customer experience is creating a massive positive pressure which is forcing the industry (and other market players) to either innovate or succumb to irrelevance.Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D., Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Still, the similarities are felt, stylistically and technically, in the collage-like form and the free manipulation of archival images—and, above all, in a shared sense of audacious yet exquisite aestheticism yoked to a strain of refined, resolute insolence.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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And despite Aegon’s insolence, neither Criston nor Aemond could have predicted that the king would show up to the fight drunk on dragonback before Aemond can arrive.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 7 July 2024
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Bad hygiene, rudeness and talking too much about exes will be the biggest no-nos.Analis Bailey, Axios, 14 Dec. 2024
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Not drinking alcohol — for whatever reason — tends to trigger rudeness in people who do drink.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 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 26 Dec. 2024.
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