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Meanings of impertinence in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "cheek"
Examples for "cheek"
1
The problem of shade caused by tall buildings standing cheek-by-jowl, for example.
2
Believe me, Gabriel, I know.' She placed his hand on her cheek.
3
Arundez blinked and held her hand to his cheek a moment longer.
4
It's very tongue-in-cheek social comment but it's still social comment, he said.
5
The energy expert stroked his cheek with long fingers, pondering the question.
1
It was common in all levels of society, including the upper crust.
2
Key element: Allow the base to crust over to create the socarrar.
3
Therefore, a fair amount of each still survives in the earth's crust.
4
No freshly churned butter on your crust-free organic toast-fingers every second Sunday?'
5
Its basic menu features pizza products in various sizes and crust types.
1
Whisk in oil and use dressing within several hours for optimum freshness.
2
And in this cool freshness we hear the song of the lark:
3
The pleached walks and parterres were in all the freshness of June.
4
I like your restaurants, and the great freshness in young people here.
5
Yet the city looked pleasant enough in the freshness of early June.
1
It was insolence and not insolence; it was modesty and not modesty.
2
The officer in command had arrived full of threats and insolence: Mlle.
3
The age of good breeding has passed; insolence has taken its place.
4
He looked me full in the face with stupid insolence, and said:
5
He was a magnificent specimen of the insolence natural to victorious soldiers.
1
Can you imagine such impudence!' 'Anything since then?' asked the other hoarsely.
2
Learn to lie; have the courage of a criminal, and his impudence.
3
There was rare impudence in the laughter with which she answered him.
4
Class elevation is pretence, not superiority; complacence, not wisdom; impudence, not power.
5
His impudence in coming to you, of all men, is perfectly intolerable.
1
It was the last drop in the cup of gall, she thought.
2
The cares of the world did not gall the shoulders of Mme.
3
She often ate the bread of sorrow steeped in wormwood and gall.
4
The gall of the bear is used as medicine internally and externally.
5
Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
1
Photograph: Plan UK The cheekiness of the ad carried some risks.
2
Consequently, the little thief was restored to his usual state of jaunty cheekiness.
3
None of the winning cheekiness of a young Justin Timberlake.
4
An overwhelming sense of my colossal cheekiness made me stammer.
5
He missed her voice, her cheekiness, her infectious laugh.
Usage of impertinence in inglés
1
Housebuilders, not used to such impertinence from a Conservative minister, hit back.
2
But I would not permit the impertinence were I in your case.
3
But it was quite simply said, without the faintest idea of impertinence.
4
She begged my pardon for her impertinence; I remain friendly towards her.
5
She had mock-scolded him for impertinence, and left with her heart eased.
6
And I shall not venture the impertinence of prying or of urging.
7
Forgive me this strange impertinence; my heart is full, and has overflowed.
8
Ethel was very angry at her impertinence in speaking so to me.
9
The familiar impertinence of these girls must be seen to be understood.
10
The former were, no doubt, addicted to gross impertinence in their conversation.
11
The Tenor ignored this last impertinence, but the Boy was not abashed.
12
Without heeding the veiled impertinence of her manner, Horace commenced his narrative:
13
Indeed, nothing could exceed the frivolity of the great, except their impertinence.
14
We know with what increasing impertinence the Constituent Assembly treated Louis XVI.
15
She was not at all used to impertinence from the opposite sex.
16
The old woman did not appear to be surprised at his impertinence.
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Translations for impertinence
portugués
Impertinence through the time
Impertinence across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare