impertinent

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  1. adjective Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold: impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup.
  2. adjective Not pertinent; irrelevant. See Synonyms at irrelevant.

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  • I have seen ladies indulge their own ill humour by being very rude and impertinent, and think they deserved approbation by saying I love to speak truth. —  Lady Mary Wortley Montague
  • I judged it right to help in that; and impertinent, at this stage of affairs, to go any farther. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
  • Such is the humiliating Situation in which I am forced to appear while riding in her Ladyship's Coach -- I dare not be impertinent, as my Mother is always admonishing me to be humble and patient if I wish to make my way in the world. —  Love And Freindship
  • "Listen, thanks for your help, but I'd better be on my way. —  The Moment Of The Magician
  • Praise is impertinent, and censure vain.” —  The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
 

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  1. Middle English, irrelevant, from Old French, from Late Latin impertinēns, impertinent- : Latin in-, not; see in-1 + Latin pertinēns, pertinent; see pertinent.

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  1. = French impertinent = Spanish Portuguese Itimpertinente, from Latin im-pertinen(t-)s, inpertinen(t-)s, not belonging, from in- privative + pertinen(t-)s, belonging: see pertinent.
 

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