impertinent

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Rather than tossing her out of the office for being impertinent, which is what would happen in real life, Debi makes the rather magnanimous gesture of asking what it is that Megan

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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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  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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/ɪmˈpərtɪnənt/
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