Example Sentences

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The Saab driver looked up the mountain road and then turned the Saab so that the rear was impertinently pointing up the hill.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

Heliot Emil: The Copenhagen brand is drastically minimalist and impertinently unisex.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2017

At a time when voting was extended to more working men, its newly enfranchised visitors could rant at a disliked politician or stare impertinently into the eyes of royalty.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2011

No one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2011

Corporal Whitcomb sauntered back in wearing a shiny new smirk and leaned his elbow impertinently against the center pole of the chaplain’s tent.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller