Modifies a noun

• question: Such was the famous reply given by the nineteenth century artist James McNeil Whistler to what seemed to him like a rather impertinent question.

• remark: God stopped and looked straight at the kid. 'I'd thank you, young man, to keep your impertinent remarks to yourself.

• fellow: Not at all; the impertinent fellow whispered something in her ear, and she answered in the same way.

• manner: My pionts were overshadowed by my lack of compassion and my impertinent manner.

• letter: I longed to return him to the keeping of his mother, who constantly wrote me impertinent letters.

• thing: That's a bit of... that's a bit of an impertinent thing to say, isn't it?

Modifying Another Word

• very: You have to be very impertinent to make such an claim.

• rather: Such was the famous reply given by the nineteenth century artist James McNeil Whistler to what seemed to him like a rather impertinent question.

• so: I hope they are not so impertinent as to follow us.

• almost: The Unnameable The nature of I AM, the existent one, is so multi-dimensional that to catalog a few aspects seems almost impertinent.

• too: Don't think me too impertinent for indeed I don't mean to be that!

• not: One offers the following suggestion in the hope that it is not impertinent.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: The Unnameable The nature of I AM, the existent one, is so multi-dimensional that to catalog a few aspects seems almost impertinent.

• appear: I hope you will excuse me for doing what is only my duty, although it may appear impertinent.

• think: Believing this as I do, I hope I won't be thought impertinent if I end this lecture with a suggestion.