Sentence examples for impertinence from inspiring English sources

The word "impertinence" is used in written English
It usually means "rude or disrespectful behavior." For example, "John's impertinence toward his teacher was inappropriate and led to a detention."

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impertinence

noun

Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.

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Rather than investigating the claims Jonathan fired Sanusi for his impertinence at publicly hinting of government fraud.

Yet this strayed dangerously close to looking like premeditated surrender and Liverpool were undoubtedly fortunate that Madrid were not in the mood to punish them more heavily for their impertinence.

What impertinence.

The grandee pondered this impertinence but did not immediately respond.

The NLD has started to propose bills, something previously viewed as an impertinence for a non-government party to do.

It was widely reported in Brazil that our impertinence had the effect of making the finance minister unsackable.

In Yunnan these rivers and their valleys form one of the world's most remarkable hotspots of biodiversity.To the engineers who dominate China's leadership, the rivers' wildness must seem an impertinence.

But given that he died in 1952 and his daughter the queen seems pretty formal, it seems implausible that he cast protocol to the winds like a proto-Diana in trousers.Equally, for most of the film, Logue is shown using impertinence as a clinical tool, calling his royal patient "Bertie" or lounging on a throne to provoke the king's stutter away.

Bagehot portrayed Clark as an eccentric; someone who simply did not follow the rules and could not care less about what people thought of his impertinence.

The Japanese believe their language to be so difficult that it counts as something of an impertinence for a foreigner to speak it.

A senior FLN man admitted, "Perhaps we are out of step with the younger generation".YouTube impertinence carries risks.

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