impudent
adjective
of, relating to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery.
impudently
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a word derived from
impudent.
Example Sentences
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The music still instantly captivates, even if whole swaths of the audience won’t be familiar with the original songs, impudently rewritten for the occasion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
On “From Ukraine, For Ukraine,” a darkly brilliant new omnibus album by the cutting-edge Kyiv label Standard Deviation, grief and rage melt into impudently beautiful contemporary threnodies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Hughes has infused new life into dry-as-dust facts to produce a learned work that is brazenly, impudently vivacious.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2018
But he “obstinately and impudently persisted to deny the fact.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2015
Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts.
From "1984" by George Orwell
