impertinence

If you mean to insinuate that I am, I consider that you are guilty of impertinence.

"He approached me with familiarity, I repulsed him with ceremony," said a man of rank, alluding to an impertinence of this kind.

He retreated to his neighbor's shop the tailor's, and, sitting on the step, protected it from the impertinence of morning calls.

You see,” he said, cheerfully, “it was not impertinence—it was only formality.