Sentence examples for is impertinent from inspiring English sources

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is impertinent

adjective

Insolent, ill-mannered

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'I have a possibly unfashionable understanding of the word "impertinence",' Powell explains in his introduction, 'and I believe it is impertinent for the biographer or critic to poke his nose into those aspects of a living author's life where his nose is least welcome.' This refusal to be prurient about the living is fair enough, except when it defeats his object, which it does here quite often.

It is impertinent of the insurer to act on information that is medically insignificant.

He held that it is impertinent to pray to God to change things.

Meanwhile, "Blue Diagram," a net of electric blue thrown over a dusty teal ground, is as nuanced as "Shade" is impertinent.

Although reviewing El Greco is impertinent, consider what now follows a few personal thoughts, which take for granted that he was a spectacular painter.

You might say it is impertinent to question the boxing judgement of Barry McGuigan, the Clones Cyclone who flies straight into any serious assessment of British fighting's best post-war performers.

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It was impertinent genius.

Don't be impertinent.

Instead they are seen to be impertinent.

"If you are impertinent, you will be punished very severely".

Seen from here, the question may be impertinent.

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