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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In an impudent manner; insolently.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in an impudent or impertinent manner

Etymologies

  1. impudent +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “As the beggars and wanderers went slinking out of the room, some called impudently, cheerfully:”

    Twilight in Italy

  • “We're Big Coffin Hunters just like you! "one called impudently across to him.”

    Wizard and Glass

  • “It was his pleasure -- and seemingly the pleasure and privilege of all lineman's gangs the world over -- to whistle blithely and to call impudently to any passing petticoat that caught his fancy.”

    One Basket

  • “I give you "impudently" if we agree the bosoms can be "ample".”

    Pardon my giggles.

  • “Full-voiced, agile and impudently funny, she bounded around the stage, blithely tricking the Forester's vain and stupid chickens, appropriating the old Badger's den, learning about love from the Fox, chomping on a rabbit, and howling defiance at Harašta, who shot her.”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Beauty of the Beasts

  • “Such was his confidence, that when a moose-bird impudently hopped up to him, he reached out at it with a playful paw.”

    The Wall of the World

  • “We went on through the trees toward the caves -- an excited and disorderly mob that drove before it to their holes all the small life of the forest, and that set the blue-jays screaming impudently.”

    CHAPTER XV

  • “A sea-gull with slow, deliberate flight and long, majestic curves circled round us, and as a reminder of home a little English sparrow perched impudently on the fo'castle head, and, cocking his head on one side, chirped merrily.”

    Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan

  • “And there was no human ... only a small cockatoo that twisted his head impudently and sidewise at him and repeated, "Cocky.”

    CHAPTER XI

  • “He drifted back to the immediate present for a moment and noted that the river still ran wide open, and that a moose-bird, perched on the bow of the boat, was surveying him impudently.”

    Chapter VIII

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