Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an impudent manner; insolently.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an impudent or impertinent manner

Etymologies

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impudent +‎ -ly

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Examples

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

    Twilight in Italy 2003

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

    Twilight in Italy 1907

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

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • 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.

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

  • 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 Edna Ferber 1926

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

    Pardon my giggles. LuLu 2008

  • 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 2010

  • 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 2010

  • 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 2010

  • 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 Beauty of the Beasts Heidi Waleson 2011

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