Impertinence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or condition of being impertinent, especially:
  • n. Insolence.
  • n. Irrelevance.
  • n. An impertinent act or statement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
  • n. An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
  • n. The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
  • n. insolence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The condition or quality of being impertinent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.
  • n. Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.
  • n. That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no value.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The condition or quality of being impertinent or irrelevant; the condition of not being appropriate to the matter in hand; irrelevance.
  • n. That which is impertinent; that which is irrelevant or out of place, as in speech, writing, or manners.
  • n. Conduct unbecoming the person, society, circumstances, etc.; incivility; presumption; forwardness.
  • n. In law, matter (especially in a pleading or an affidavit) which is immaterial in substance, and from prolixity or extent is so inconvenient as to render its presence objectionable.
  • To treat with impertinence, rudeness, or incivility; affect as with impertinence.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an impudent statement
  • n. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
  • n. inappropriate playfulness
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