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impudence

US/ˈɪmpjədəns/

impudence noun: the quality of being impudent, not showing due respect.

Noun

impudence (countable and uncountable, plural impudences)

  1. The quality of being impudent, not showing due respect.
  2. Impudent language, conduct or behavior.
    • That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

impudence meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

impudence in Tamil

அகங்காரம், செருக்கு, திமிர், கொழுப்பு

impudence in Urdu

بےحیائی, ڈھٹائی, گستاخی, زبان درازی

impudence in Bengali

ধৃষ্টতা, নির্লজ্জতা, বেয়াদবি

impudence in Malayalam

insolence, impertinence, effrontery
അഹമ്മതി, അധികപ്രസംഗം, ധിക്കാരം, ധാർഷ്ട്യം, ലജ്ജയില്ലായ്മ, നിർമ്മര്യാദത
More languagesFewer languages
impudence in Arabic
صَفَاقَة ṣafāqa, وَقَاحَة waqāḥa

Synonyms of impudence

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All synonyms of impudence

Forms of impudence

pluralimpudences

Origin of impudence

From Middle French impudence, from Latin impudentia.

Questions about impudence

What does impudence mean?
Impudence means the quality of being impudent, not showing due respect.
What is impudence in Tamil?
Impudence in Tamil is அகங்காரம், செருக்கு, திமிர். See Impudence meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is impudence?
Impudence is a noun.
How do you pronounce impudence?
Impudence is pronounced /ˈɪmpjədəns/ (US).
What is the plural of impudence?
The plural of impudence is impudences.

Words near impudence in the dictionary

  1. impsonites
  2. Impsons
  3. impuberal
  4. impuberate
  5. impuberty
  6. impudence
  7. impudences
  8. impudencies
  9. impudency
  10. impudent
  11. impudentest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impudence (page history and authors); impudence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impudence (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Impudence (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impudence (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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