Crossword-Solution: IMPERTINENCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
The same fascination that caused him to think it an act which had a deliberate motive prevented him from regarding it as an impertinence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2006–2007).