Impudent meaning

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The definition of impudent is someone who is offensively bold.

An example of impudent is a mistress announcing her relationship at a dinner party with her lover's wife present.

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Offensively bold or disrespectful; insolent or impertinent.
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Immodest.
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Shamelessly bold or disrespectful; insolent.
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Not showing due respect; impertinent; bold-faced.

The impudent children would not stop talking in class.

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Origin of impudent

Middle English from Latin impudēns impudent- in- not in–1 pudēns present participle of pudēre to be ashamed

Sentence Examples

  • "He is the most impudent and opiniative fellow I ever knew," said Wolfe Tone.

  • "Impudent fellows!" said the prince.

  • "Don't be impudent, Eureka," admonished Dorothy.

  • Macpherson, whose Fingal had been treated in the Journey as an impudent forgery, threatened to take vengeance with a cane.

  • The discovery that the poet had printed secretly 1500 copies of The Patriot King caused him to publish a correct version in 1749, and stirred up a further altercation with Warburton, who defended his friend against Bolingbroke's bitter aspersions, the latter, whose conduct was generally reprehended, publishing a Familiar Epistle to the most Impudent Man Living.

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