Examples of impudent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington. Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2016 There’s some amusing cat-and-mouse negotiation, including a hilariously impudent gesture from Samuel during an office drinks evening. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Many critics dismissed the movie as an ahistorical powder puff, an impudent exercise in vibes-first filmmaking. Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024 Lisa is often out of the house and in motion: roaming the aisles of a pharmacy that’s open late and where no one seems to be working; on a bus contending with impudent youths; breaking the rules at a sleep clinic; wasted and lost after a bachelorette party. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023 Yet the controversy had the effect of typecasting Gurba as the impudent indie writer willing to torch the publishing industry to make a point about diversity. Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023 There are no incentives for banks to play by rules when the cautious are punished with special assessments imposed on all banks to cover losses of recklessly impudent. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023 But inquiring into the specifics of familial dynamics is impudent and prying — and a line of questioning that most people would be happy to avoid answering themselves. Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2023 This thinly coded carnality was not lost on killjoys who pulled the culture back from such impudent affronts to established order. Noel Stevens, The New York Review of Books, 21 Jan. 2023

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“Impudent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impudent. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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