IMPUDENCE in a Sentence

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63 example sentences for IMPUDENCE, such as:

1. There was no evading his impudence.
2. Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
3. How impudent u are to say such a thing.
4. He is the most impudent fellow in nature.
5. She's tolerant toward those impudent colleagues.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPUDENCE
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impudence
 n.  offensively bold behavior; trait of being rude
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  The mainspring of his existence was taken away when she died and with it had gone his bounding assurance, his impudence and his restless vitality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  If only he had the gallantry and ardor of the Tarleton boys or even the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  As always when his mockery aroused wrath within her, wrath fought with laughter at his impudence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  There was no evading his impudence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Once the hard times were disposed of, the ladies spoke of the increasing impudence of the negroes and the outrages of the Carpetbaggers and the humiliation of having the Yankee soldiers loafing on every corner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  And with these cracked words he finally departed, leaving me, for the moment, in no small wonderment at his frantic impudence.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
7  The wife of the prisoner had been employed in a department near him, and had been discharged for impudence to him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  He was one of those who could torture the slightest look, word, or gesture, on the part of the slave, into impudence, and would treat it accordingly.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Mr. and Mrs. Shelby both felt annoyed and degraded by the familiar impudence of the trader, and yet both saw the absolute necessity of putting a constraint on their feelings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  That fellow's impudence has been growing to a point that is perfectly intolerable to me.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  These fellows dared not have acted with such inconceivable impudence, had they not been supported by some strong bands.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  His eyes narrowed a little, with irony, perhaps with impudence.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  And above all he dreaded her cool, upper-class impudence of having her own way.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  It was a very odd look, this look of impudence: as if he were triumphing over life in spite of life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  But I can't stand the twaddling bossy impudence of the people who run this world.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
Example Sentence:
1  Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
2  She's tolerant toward those impudent colleagues.
3  How impudent u are to say such a thing.
4  He is the most impudent fellow in nature.
5  The teacher threatened to kick the impudent pupil out of the room.
6  I think your pert and impudent remarks call for an apology.