Immodest; shameless; brazen; indelicate. With that a joyous fellowship issewd Of Minstrales making goodly meriment, With wanton Bardes, and Rymers impudent.Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 5.A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man. Shak., T. and C., iii. 3.
Offensively forward in behavior; intentionally disrespectful; insolent; possessed of unblushing assurance. Nor that the calumnious reports of that impudent detractor … hath at all attached, much less dejected me. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1.
Manifesting impudence; exhibiting or characterized by disrespect toward or disregard of others. There is not so impudent a thing in Nature as the sawcy Look of an assured Man, confident of Success. Congreve, Way of the World, iv. 5.Apartments so decorated can have been meant only for … people for whom life was impudent ease and comfort. H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 203.
Not only barefaced, impudent, immorality of all kinds, but often professed infidelity and atheism.
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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.
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The Private Life of Henry Maitland
"Oh God," Joanna whispered, knowing what it had to be.
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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.
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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, â” for only by accident could he have perished.
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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
from Middle Englishimpudent = Frenchimpudent = SpanishPortugueseItalianimpudente, from Latinimpuden(t-)s, inpuden(t-)s, shameless, from in-privative + puden(t-)s, ashamed: see pudent.