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How to use impudent in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Impudent means not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent. Example: “The impudent children would not stop talking in class.”

Examples of impudent by meaning

adjectiveNot showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.

  • The impudent children would not stop talking in class.

More sentences with impudent

  • Let us frown the impudent fellow into silence.From the entry frown
  • Round noon the gas boat’s impudent sputter ticked out across the wide face of the Naas River.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck. From the entry gas boat
  • In this same district a porky pulled the most impudent stunt of all.1929, Forest and Stream, page 58. From the entry porky
  • Best used for penalties that are scored in a tidy, unfussy manner – no impudent Panenkas or short runups welcome here, thanks.2015, Adam Hurrey, Football Clichés: Decoding the Oddball Phrases, Colorful Gestures, and Unwritten Rules of Soccer Across the Pond. From the entry panenka
  • She shot him an impudent smile before gripping the metal with the pliers and twisting it into a star with origamilike precision.2009, Nicola Marsh, The Boss's Bedroom Agenda. From the entry origamilike
  • However, it only recently began to be treated as an exponent of a certain cultural vision advanced by sheer and impudent political power.1995, Edward Możejko, “Between Symbolist Decline and the Rise of Newspeak: Mapping the Dynamics of the Russian Literary Avant-Garde”, in…. From the entry newspeak
  • The children are impudent and stiff-hearted.1917, Bible (Jewish Publication Society), Ezekiel ii. 4. From the entry stiff-hearted
  • They had been stopped at the dazio coming back, and the young officials there, who seemed impudent and désœuvré, had tried to search their reticules.1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 43. From the entry désoeuvré
  • Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.1942, Virginia Woolf, chapter 20, in The Death of the Moth, and other essays, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2011. From the entry impish
  • The prejudice against Indian settlers outside India is showing itself in a variety of ways: Under the impudent suggestion of sedition the Fiji Government has deported Mr.1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Freedom's Battle, Treatment of Indians Abroad. From the entry sedition
  • Watch his impudent boldness with great men – you would not think that Essex was the premier Earl and that McGunn was the lowly kern from the boglands of Ireland.2010, Rory Clements, Revenger. From the entry kern

Meaning of impudent

  1. adjective Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.
  2. adjective Lacking modesty or shame; indelicate.

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Questions about impudent in a sentence

How do you use impudent in a sentence?
Impudent is used as an adjective. For example: “The impudent children would not stop talking in class.”
What is a short sentence with impudent?
“The children are impudent and stiff-hearted.”
What does impudent mean?
Impudent means not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.

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