Sekirov Dictionary

impertinent

UK /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/US /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
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(no longer used) Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.
- Curious speculations, and the contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, nor serve to promote our happiness, are but a more specious and ingenious sort of idleness — 1664

noun1

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An impertinent individual.
- Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents. — 1808

forms

impertinents · more impertinent · most impertinent

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