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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
impudence \im"pudence\ i^m"p-udens, n. l. impudentia:
cf. f. impudence. see impudent.
the quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a
disregard of the presence or opinions of others;
shamelessness; forwardness; lack of modesty.
1913 webster
clear truths that their own evidence forces us to
admit, or common experience makes it impudence to deny.
--locke.
1913 webster
where pride and impudence in fashion knit
usurp the chair of wit. --b. jonson.
syn: shamelessness; audacity; insolence; effrontery;
sauciness; impertinence; pertness; rudeness.
usage: impudence, effrontery, sauciness. impudence
refers more especially to the feelings as manifested
in action. effrontery applies to some gross and public
exhibition of shamelessness. sauciness refers to a
sudden pert outbreak of impudence, especially from an
inferior. impudence is an unblushing kind of
impertinence, and may be manifested in words, tones,
gestures, looks, etc. effrontery rises still higher,
and shows a total or shameless disregard of duty or
decorum under the circumstances of the case. sauciness
discovers itself toward particular individuals, in
certain relations; as in the case of servants who are
saucy to their masters, or children who are saucy to
their teachers. see impertinent, and insolent.
1913 webster
see also:
impudent impudence effrontery sauciness impertinent insolent
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
impudence
n 1: an impudent statement syn: cheek, impertinence
2: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take
liberties syn: crust, gall, impertinence, insolence,
cheekiness, freshness
see also:
cheek impertinence crust gall insolence cheekiness
freshness
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
76 moby thesaurus words for "impudence":
arrogance, audacity, back talk, backchat, bold front, boldness,
brash bearing, brashness, brass, brassiness, bravado,
brazen boldness, brazenfacedness, brazenness, bumptiousness, cheek,
cheekiness, chutzpah, cockiness, contempt, contemptuousness,
daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, despite,
discourtesy, disdain, disesteem, dishonor, disparagement,
disregard, disrespect, disrespectfulness, effrontery,
face of brass, flippancy, freshness, gall, guff, hardihood,
heroics, hubris, impertinence, impoliteness, improvidence,
imprudence, incivility, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence,
irreverence, lack of respect, lip, mouth, overboldness,
overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness,
pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, rashness, ridicule,
rudeness, sauce, sauciness, shamelessness, side, temerariousness,
temerity, unchariness, unwariness
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