impudent

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• Not only barefaced, impudent, immorality of all kinds, but often professed infidelity and atheism. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
• The step is so bold as to be really impudent, and I often have serious fears, not, of course, on my own account. —  The Private Life of Henry Maitland
• "Oh God," Joanna whispered, knowing what it had to be. —  The Silicon Mage
• He tells me she is a woman of a very bad fame and very impudent, and has told my Lord so, yet for all that my Lord do spend all his evenings with her, though he be at court in the day time, and that the world do take notice of it, and that Pickering is only there as a blind, that the world may think that my Lord spends his time with him when he do worse, and that hence it is that my Lord has no more mind to go into the country than he has. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jul/Aug 1663
• Seizing the moment of dejection in the nation, he put in this retrograde ministry; sanctioned their acts, daily more impudent: let them neutralize the constitution he himself had given; and when the people slew his minister, and assaulted him in his own palace, he yielded anew; he dared not die, or even run the slight risk, — for only by accident could he have perished. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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