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Discover Ludwig"impertinence for" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a person's lack of respect or courtesy towards something or someone. Example: His impertinence for authority often got him into trouble with his superiors.
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The NLD has started to propose bills, something previously viewed as an impertinence for a non-government party to do.
The Japanese believe their language to be so difficult that it counts as something of an impertinence for a foreigner to speak it.
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There is, perhaps, also something of Jack Nicholson's lawless colonel in A Few Good Men to this man, sneering at the impertinence of Tom Cruise for asking questions.
He peers across, fully registering my presence for the first time, trying to work out whether I should be punished for my impertinence, or pitied for my ignorance.
Fearing he will take offence, I apologise for the impertinence of the question, before asking if his mother's estate was shared with David, but he doesn't appear to mind at all.
Among its various consequences, intoxication opens us up to other people, and Scruton maintains that this wine-induced sociability serves a much larger purpose than merely rendering us chatty: it enables us to both seek and grant forgiveness for "the impertinence of existing" (now, perhaps, you understand the need to have a glass of wine by your side).
Certainly after he had weathered the early storm on Saturday, he found much of his old genius for eluding punishment while punishing his opponent for impertinence.
But if you have the impertinence to exist for bigger reasons, then you're probably going to upgrade your "what" to support it.
It's said that even a century and a half after Montaigne's death, when the marquis d'Argenson subtitled a book with that word, Essays, he was shouted down for impertinence.
But if he has the impertinence to appeal for a smaller sentence or a lower fine, the office of the Public Prosecutor will lodge a counter-appeal a minima, which may make the defendant wish he had accepted what he was given in the first place.
He experienced his first taste of naval discipline when he was punished for impertinence to a naval instructor; he was made to stand on deck from eight in the morning until sunset.
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