Crossword-Solution: IMPERTINENCE 12 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Word Word Type Definition
Impertinence n. The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence
of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.
Impertinence n. Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the
society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.
Impertinence n. That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or
of no value.

We have 38 clues for the answer “IMPERTINENCE”

Clue Answers
Disrespectful behaviour 1 answer
insolentness 2 answers
short answer 3 answers
insolency 3 answers
answering back 3 answers
BOORISHNESS 4 answers
incivility 6 answers
pertness 9 answers
Sass 11 answers
brashness 17 answers
unfitness 18 answers
hubris 20 answers
Temerity 23 answers
detraction 27 answers
Back Talk 28 answers
irrelevance 28 answers
High tone? 30 answers
Impudence 33 answers
Lip 38 answers
hardihood 38 answers
Freshness 41 answers
BRASS ___ 42 answers
Insolence 44 answers
Effrontery 45 answers
boldness 46 answers
Chutzpah 47 answers
Disrespect 48 answers
Audacity 49 answers
rudeness 49 answers
Arrogance 50 answers
Defiance 54 answers
Disdain 55 answers
Contempt 65 answers
Cheek 66 answers
Sauce 70 answers
Threat 70 answers
discourtesy 73 answers
misconduct 73 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
CRELOET
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with IMPERTINENCE (5)

But apt the Mind or Fancie is to roave Uncheckt, and of her roaving is no end; Till warn’d, or by experience taught, she learne, That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and suttle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom, what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concerne Unpractis’d, unprepar’d, and still to seek.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The same fascination that caused him to think it an act which had a deliberate motive prevented him from regarding it as an impertinence.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Then followed a dialogue, which I will endeavour to set down as near as I can recollect it, omitting only some of my profuse apologies—for I was covered with shame and humiliation that I, a Square, should have been guilty of the impertinence of feeling a Circle.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
May it soon terminate happily! It would be an impertinence elsewhere, but it is not so here, to ask your name and condition?” Charles Darnay roused himself, and gave the required information, in words as suitable as he could find.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
The impertinence of the Eltons, which for a few minutes had threatened to ruin the rest of her evening, had been the occasion of some of its highest satisfactions; and she looked forward to another happy result—the cure of Harriet’s infatuation.—From Harriet’s manner of speaking of the circumstance before they quitted the ballroom, she had strong hopes.
Emma Jane Austen 1994

Quotes with IMPERTINENCE (3)

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.
Samuel Beckett
Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.
Patricia Briggs
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (2006–2007).