impudently

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Adverb
  • Ritter has disciplined Menapace after the lawmaker acted rudely or abusively to a committee clerk.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
  • In another famous tale, Hoja arrives at a feast wearing old and ragged clothes and is treated rudely.
    Perin Gürel, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Good was in a relationship with a woman, and her partner, who is butch, spoke impertinently to an ICE officer, so there, Good wasn’t your average white mother after all.
    M. Gessen, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Arrington was driving recklessly before crashing into a silver car at Lake Street and Fourth Avenue South.
    WCCO Staff, CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • Ohio law defines murder as the purposeful causing of a death, while the lesser charge of reckless murder means the defendant acted recklessly in causing a death.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 May 2026
Adverb
  • The camera then switches from the chaos of the puppy, to the kitten—who is sitting in a relaxed position, blinking slowly, and staring almost disdainfully at the wriggling puppy.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Bella, in her podcast conversation with Trinny Woodall, recalled that once, at a village post office, a shop assistant disdainfully called her a hippie.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Impudently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impudently. Accessed 14 May. 2026.

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