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impertinent
Synonyms and Antonyms of impertinent
- the impertinent child had a smart answer for everything
- impertinent salesmen who telephone people during the dinner hour
arch, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, fresh, impudent, insolent, lippy, sassy, saucy, shameless
boorish, caddish, churlish, clownish, loutish, uncouth, vulgar
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), crusty, curt, gruff, sharp, snippety, snippy
antisocial, crabbed, cross, disagreeable, grumpy, sullen, surly
improper, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, unseemly
arrogant, bumptious, conceited, haughty, high-handed, imperious, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, supercilious, superior
- your résumé needlessly lists skills that are impertinent to the job for which you are applying
Synonym Discussion of impertinent
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- resented their impertinent interference
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- officious friends made the job harder
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- a meddlesome landlord
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- tried to be helpful without being intrusive
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- expressed an obtrusive concern for his safety
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