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Sentence Examples I hope you don't feel that I am being impertinent to you in raising those matters with you. There are times when it's wise to hold your tongue, Sir, for you are an impertinent fellow. For an agonizing 20 minutes, he politely fielded a volley of impertinent questions. It may have been impertinent but it was surely unheretical to raise the question again in this nuanced way. The main reason I haven't been to California before is their impertinent, nannyish tobacco fatwa. My time has been taken up with appeasing the whims of a very impertinent and ill-humored stallion. The work began to display a tendency towards regular rhythmic pulse, consonant intervals and an impertinent use of the then forbidden octave. The cat is pleasantly impertinent to the king and Alice notes that a cat may look at a king, so he isn't being uncivil. Shouting for it to stop, he propped his charge against a wall and went to remonstrate with the impertinent driver. With a camera in hand, she was free to ask the impertinent questions that would emancipate society from its sexual repression. There are in these uninterrupted hundred minutes valuable insights, humorous anecdotes, pertinent and impertinent asides. I am glad I kept my impertinent trap shut two years ago, and I am now looking forward immensely to watching the drama next Tuesday night. The results, always impertinent and delightful, can be both startling and surprising. All of us, that is, have a child-reader within asking shrewd and impertinent questions. They can ask us the most impertinent or rude questions but, obviously, we cannot ask, hint at or even think about anything approaching the same. There's no choice but to speak ill of the dead and ask impertinent questions about the emperor's clothes. These are impertinent questions, and their only aim is to reduce any claims as much as possible. I have been told by some of the publicists associated with the movie that I'm a little impertinent to be leading any chorus in that direction. It seems a bit impertinent to ask if this relationship needs a license to endure. The waiter was brusque to the point of being rude and impertinent, messed up the orders and was not particularly responsive. Show More Sentences I suppose you think I'm rude and impertinent, barging in here and insisting I knew you. She was an impertinent child who displayed no respect for me or this city of ours. However the compilation fits together so seamlessly that it would be rather impertinent to keep on discussing individual items. His impertinent mind has tossed them all on canvas to intercept, deflect, provoke the eye. The great, the good and the rich rule their fiefdoms without having to put up with any impertinent interference from the people who do most of the work or buy the goods. She discouraged impertinent curiosity with frozen silence and there is an uneasy feeling, as one reads, that one is prying into her chosen privacy. He deals very well with even the most impertinent questions. The President, without calling you impertinent, considers that the motion is not pertinent and asks that others do not use the floor in this way. Shifted and impertinent, POP is the Champagne of the beautiful one and nonconformism. Journalists have an invisible passe-partout that allows them to roam the world and ask consequential people impertinent questions. An impertinent style combining poetry and elegance with the edginess of a rock chic look. Ambassadrices of the chic and mischievous, both self-mocking and snobby, they know how to be pompous, impertinent and voluptuous at all times. The parliamentary secretary called me a clown in a contemptuous, cavalier, haughty, impertinent and offhand way, Mr. Chair, I won't take it. When I spoke about an academic' debate on the alternatives, this was not intended to be impertinent. Would it be impertinent of me to offer some advice to you and your readers? It is clear that article 150 of the criminal code was used to punish an impertinent journalist immediately. I realised that the essence of science, as Jacob Bronowski remarked, is to ask impertinent questions. Once the evidence that is not impertinent or pointless has been admitted, such evidence shall be submitted forthwith. Slightly impertinent in tone, it speaks of culture from a somewhat oblique standpoint, and of individual pleasure. It is so frustrating that the bleached images of the alien world are so ruggedly handsome and so unjustified and impertinent to the plot at the same time. Show More Sentences Well, nothing except hard feelings from impertinent comments made by bewigged egocentrics with fiery tempers. And this step is an impertinent intrusion in peoples' personal lives. And why do we say the insolent and impertinent are brass-necked? A couple of years ago a bunch of them sat through a four-hour meeting with yours truly and answered a whole lot of questions, both pertinent and impertinent. Edmund is now 4, and is a giggly, sociable, nosy, occasionally impertinent boy. Admittedly, the question was cheeky, perhaps even a little impertinent. Yes, Paul brought it up in a way that was impertinent and likely a political ploy. In fact, a few seconds after the impertinent question was asked, William handed the child back to its parents. Would it be impertinent also to ask the Commission whether it has taken the care to ascertain whether the possible projections which it established on the launch of the Uruguay Round have been achieved? Then with an impertinent presumption she came running out the front door with the maid moving in tow. I do not approve of this wholesale going to work, this impertinent crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species. He is ridiculed by the Suitors in his own home, especially by one extremely impertinent man named Antinous. In his own ears the words he spoke rang hollow, awkward, even impertinent. He could say nothing which did not seem hideously supercilious. But pro-democracy protests on Fridays on the streets of Amman, the capital, and elsewhere are getting angrier and more impertinent towards Abdullah. Let me tell you, however impertinent and shocking it may sound, that if you want even more transparency, which means even more controls, even more audits, even more consultations and so on, you will have less effectiveness. Elders are quite sensitive to personal questions and consider them impertinent. For example, questions pertaining to bodily functions such as elimination are considered intrusive. Mr. Réal Ménard: Mr. Chairman, I don't want to be impertinent, since it is not my style, but you will understand my anguish when I compare the consultation process to the regulations. Mr. Grant Hill: I hope this doesn't sound impertinent, Mr. Young, but were you consulted on this bill prior to public knowledge about it, prior to Parliament's knowledge about it? Disrespectful, insulting, vulgar or impertinent behaviour towards management can be considered insubordination or, if displayed towards other employees, misconduct. Sir Derek had not taken umbrage at some of the rather impertinent remarks he had made during the pleadings, but had in fact encouraged him in his career, and they had subsequently worked together on many cases. Show More Sentences Charles, like his father, considered the discussion of his marriage in the Commons impertinent and an infringement of his father's royal prerogative. Examples from Classical Literature Surely the most punctilious rubrician will make no impertinent inquiries about the missing finger, so long as a fourth remains. He gave me some impertinent advice, and, because I did not care to take it, he struck me. At all events such a dream is much better than to steal sugar and to be impertinent. We have noticed that Livingstone's religion was not aggressive nor impertinent. This fellow Wetter was very impertinent with his speeches and his parallels. Favonius, in the midst of a thousand impertinent assailants of the divine truths, is an undisturbed defender of them. To him the problems of archaeology, history, and hagiography are impertinent. The garrulous or impertinent talker is almost as objectionable as the hail-fellow-well-met, slap-on-the-back fellow. At the hall entrance he encountered Leonard's huntsman, an impertinent, bony, jowly loafer whom he had never been able to endure. Nature says,he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me. She asked questions that might have been considered impertinent, not to say nervy. It mattered not that her presence there showed her to be vulgar, impertinent, and obtrusive. This was considered impertinent by the zamindar, as marriage of widows was common among the Maravars. Had she heard, by any mischance, that impertinent phrase by which I designated her? Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent nose. He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent, and evidence of a restless spirit. We beg to tell Mr. Gosse that he is libellous and impertinent. But Mr. Bergh's challenge was not an impertinent intermeddling. She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted. Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. Show More Sentences This was impertinent, but then she herself was an intrusive guest. Now this impertinent lackey, who is to say what has he not imputed to me? Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the road there who stares up at Miss Hunter. Irritated by her unresponsiveness, he grew almost impertinent. Miss Wilson has called me impertinent, and has written to my uncle that I have refused to obey the rules. Capt Sanderson, Master of the Lodge, beat emancipist Colonial Architect, Francis Greenway for writing an impertinent letter. Nevertheless, D'Artagnan was desirous of examining the appearance of this impertinent personage who ridiculed him. I was saucy and impertinent to him, Leo, like you are with people sometimes, and I wish somebody had made me behave. But, my dear Marianne, as it has already exposed you to some very impertinent remarks, do you not now begin to doubt the discretion of your own conduct? Find more words! 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