IMPUDENT in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPUDENT
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impudent
 a.  improperly forward or bold; marked by casual disrespect
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Now and then he turned his eyes from the girl's face to that of her partner, which, in the exhilaration of the dance, had taken on a look of almost impudent ownership.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  He's a small farmer, not a big planter, and if the boys thought enough of him to elect him lieutenant, then it's not for any darky to talk impudent about him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  I don't know why, for I always thought that town a mighty pushy, impudent sort of place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  As Frank said, it was a pushy, impudent place and that was why she liked it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  They were impudent looking, Scarlett agreed, for they stared at her in an insolent manner, but she forgot them in the renewed shock of seeing blue uniforms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  His black eyes took her in from bonnet to heels in a glance that missed nothing, that old impudent unclothing glance which always gave her goose bumps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Belle herself presented a prosperous appearance when glimpsed occasionally in her closed carriage driven by an impudent yellow negro.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  She hated the impudent free negroes as much as anyone and her flesh crawled with fury every time she heard their insulting remarks and high-pitched laughter as she went by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  "Don't be impudent," said Scarlett coldly, for she saw little humor in Tommy's remark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  Scarlett," said Tommy awkwardly, "I do hate to ask a favor of you, after being impudent to you, but I'm going to ask it just the same.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  It was easier to forget the impudent black faces in the streets and the blue uniforms of the garrison while they were listening to music.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  As long as she had Archie beside her, Scarlett had not given Shantytown a thought, because not even the most impudent negro woman dared laugh in her presence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  She did not deem it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her in the face.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  A woodpecker stuck his impudent head around the side of a tree.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  He shook his head, and said that the boy had been impudent and disobedient, ever since he bought him; that he was going to break him in, once for all.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence:
1  She's tolerant toward those impudent colleagues.
2  How impudent u are to say such a thing.
3  He is the most impudent fellow in nature.
4  The teacher threatened to kick the impudent pupil out of the room.
5  I think your pert and impudent remarks call for an apology.
6  Ignorance is the mother of impudence.