impertinently

• “I like to beat as well as any one; but I do like some show of organized resistance, and this young man's playing is what I call impertinently poor, as if he did not think it worth while to try.”

  Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes

• “Do you know why I allow you all to chatter impertinently just as you please, instead of treating you as Ftatateeta would treat you if she were Queen?”

  Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum

• “When Alexander confronted him, Callisthenes impertinently responded that he would do without a kiss.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “I suggested—somewhat impertinently, I realize now, but fortunately for me Cicero was too preoccupied to notice.”

  Simon & Schuster: CONSPIRATA

• “I think it will describe perfectly how important it is for us to remember the word "no" as self-empowerment and self-respect not to use rudely and impertinently and to teach it properly to our children.”

  The Huffington Post: Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Self-Defense Against Narcissists: Why 'No' Is So Hard to Say

• “We shall turn off the screen when we are ready to," she said impertinently.”

  Fictionaut: Good Night, Mrs. Calabash

• “They stank and they gibbered, they uttered incomprehensibilities and obscenities, they messed impertinently with her clean dishes, and pawed through her carefully stacked foodstuff's.”

  Fictionaut: The Lives of Felix Gunderson

• “How can people who lie so impertinently be treated seriously?”

  Bishop Arborelius on the SSPX and the newest Swedish TV attack on the Pope

• “Lafcadio impertinently turned his back to her, and looked up at the sky.”

  From The Valley Of Lost Projects: Princess Lucinda And The Missing Moon

• “When none of these corresponded with the description of the person after whom he inquired, the peasants accused him of jesting with them impertinently, and threatened to fall upon him and beat him, in guerdon of his raillery.”

  Quentin Durward

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