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impertinents

impertinents is the plural of impertinent.

Meaning of impertinent

Noun

impertinent (plural impertinents)

  1. An impertinent individual.
    • Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.1808 (date written), [Maria] Edgeworth, “Manœuvring. Chapter XII.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life, volume III, London: […] [S. Hamilton] for J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1809, →OCLC, page 292

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Questions about impertinents

What is impertinents the plural of?
Impertinents is the plural of impertinent.

Words near impertinents in the dictionary

  1. impertinencies
  2. impertinency
  3. impertinent
  4. impertinently
  5. impertinentness
  6. impertinents
  7. impertransibility
  8. impertransible
  9. imperturbabilities
  10. imperturbability
  11. imperturbable

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