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Example sentences for "impertinently"

Lexicographically close words:
impersonator; impertinence; impertinences; impertinencies; impertinent; imperturbability; imperturbable; imperturbably; impervious; imperviousness
  1. One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc.

  2. They had the impertinently solemn manner common to young married people, who seem to say: "You people don't know anything at all.

  3. Then this impertinently naïve and insatiable cherub wearied of women: he needed action, so he gave himself up uncontrollably to sport.

  4. The wit, who, being the son of a small tradesman, but in the very best society, gave himself far greater airs than the young lords, impertinently solved the mystery.

  5. He spoke to me impertinently about my country!

  6. At these words, Helene looked down upon the keys of the piano in great confusion, while Fraeulein von Quittelsdorf took her stand beside the baroness, and stared Elizabeth impertinently in the face.

  7. Why will any Man be so impertinently Officious as to tell me all this is only Fancy and Delusion?

  8. She has no Secrets, forsooth, which should make her afraid to speak her Mind, and therefore she is impertinently Blunt to all her Acquaintance, and unseasonably Imperious to all her Family.

  9. As Fanny had put it, it did seem as if they had been impertinently discussing Mrs. Thornton's feelings; but she also rose up against that lady's manner of showing that she was offended.

  10. No, dear; don't think that I am impertinently curious.

  11. And how proudly and impertinently I spoke to him that day!

  12. Herodotus and Plutarch very often apply their Judgments as impertinently as the old Woman I have before mentioned, though their manner of relating them, makes the Folly it self appear venerable.

  13. He had the Knack to raise up a pensive Temper, and mortifie an impertinently gay one, with the most agreeable Skill imaginable.

  14. Yet he was impertinently sollicitous to know what her Majesty said of him in private, and what Resentments she had towards him.

  15. And then Master Bernard turned off to some other question, as impertinently expressed as those he had put before.

  16. In your quality of Parisian, will you tell us whether a man can have another out for looking impertinently at him?

  17. To look impertinently at a man constitutes an attack on his self esteem, which in itself is an integral part of his moral wealth.

  18. The waves were small, but they were impertinently lively.

  19. I reasoned that those papers very probably contained information or statements, true or false, that would afflict you sorely, and I impertinently desired to spare you the affliction.

  20. The man, Campbell, your father, gave me a bundle of papers, as I told you a little while ago, and I have been impertinently asking myself ever since what I ought to do with them.

  21. He was received by a sharp maid, with a serva padrona manner, who looked at him impertinently and began to say that "Herr Hassler could not see him, as Herr Hassler was tired.

  22. Defn: One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc.

  23. At that juncture one of the salesmen entered the dining-room, and Roberto, who was about to say something, grew silent and looked impertinently at the intruder.

  24. More buildings he intended, (had not the stroke of one Axe hindred the working of many hammers) chiefly on Churches, whereof the following passage may not impertinently be inserted.

  25. Eric did not understand him; he thought, smiling, how Pranken had spoken of Weidmann's sons, with the impertinently white teeth.

  26. He has six sons, five of whom I know, and all look impertinently well, with pretentiously white, faultless teeth, and full beards.

  27. They were inquisitive, also, in the extreme, and impertinently intrusive; and were prone to indulge in scoffing and ridicule at the expense of the strangers.

  28. Was not his impertinently expressed desire merely the fulfilment of her own impure wishes?

  29. He pointed out a wild rabbit flicking the white underpart of its tail impertinently as it scampered away with comical self-importance.

  30. I hope you will not deem me impertinently curious if I beg you to honor me with your confidence, and explain the anxiety which is evidently preying upon your mind.


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