noun
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Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
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An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
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The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
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Insolence; impudence.
Examples of impertinence in a Sentence
The touch of some hands is an impertinence.
Not even The Times correspondent, or anyone else, could recall such impertinence.
For a non-professional operator to offer a medical opinion on a radiogram is sheer impertinence " Arthur and Muir (1909) v-vi.
Where history has the impertinence to locate a fine piece in the provinces, no expense may be spared getting it to London.
Two viceroys, earlier wooers, were burned to death by her orders for their impertinence, and she refused the hand of Olaf Trygvessiin, king of Norway, rather than submit to baptism, whereupon the indignant monarch struck her on the mouth with his gauntlet and told her she was a worse pagan than any dog.
Yet the two Lichfield men had so many early recollections in common, and sympathized with each other on so many points on which they sympathized with' nobody else in the vast population of the capital, that, though the master was often provoked by the monkey-like impertinence of the pupil, and the pupil by the bearish rudeness of the master, they remained friends till they were parted by death.
His refusal to accept a salary, either as commander-in-chief or as president, might have been taken as affectation or impertinence in any one else; it seemed natural and proper enough in the case of Washington, but it was his peculiar privilege.
It is certainly not altogether mere impertinence to ask of a public man how he gets what he lives upon, for independence of spirit, which is so hard to the man who lays his head on the debtor's pillow, is the prime virtue in such men.