Impertinence

It is no very hard matter to guess at the Source of this Impertinence, which is nothing else but a Method or Mechanick Art of being wise.

Spectator, August 20, 1771 1771

It is no very hard matter to guess at the Source of this Impertinence, which is nothing else but a

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

At other Times, I made Reply with my Fists, and have beat many a Fellow for Impertinence.

"I encourage conservative and libertarian — or just mischievous — students to flood the system with complaints about anything that offends them." Ann Althouse 2008

Impertinence! with a look, the fellow to that she gave him before.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Impertinence! said I — Wert thou bid to come up in this fluttering way? — and I took up my fan, and fanned myself.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Miss Snark, forgive me for my Impertinence, but did you read The DaVinci Code?

HH Com 29 Miss Snark 2006

I was naturally inquisitive, and a little too talkative, in my Youth, which Qualities have perhaps increased with my Age, but as I remember, I used to [illegible] swear at theimpertinence vanity and Impertinence of old Nestor whose Speeches

John Adams diary 6, 2 December 1760 - 3 March 1761 1961

Grammarwithout or Rhetoric, or Poetry, or Music or Architecture, without labouring thro a vast deal of Nonsense, and Impertinence -- in short, Nonsense seems an unalienable Property of human Affairs.

John Adams diary 6, 2 December 1760 - 3 March 1761 1961

-- After a good deal more of this harmless Impertinence, he turned off, and left me.

John Adams diary 15, 30 January 1768, 10 August 1769 - 22 August 1770 1961

Petulance, Impertinence and Impudence, will makea great too great a figure in these memoires hereafter.

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961