impudicity

[ im-pyoo-dis-i-tee ]

noun

1. immodesty.

impudicity

/ ˌɪmpjʊˈdɪsɪtɪ /

noun

1. rare.
   immodesty

Word History and Origins

Origin of impudicity¹

1520–30; < Middle French impudicité < Latin impudīc ( us ) immodest ( im- im- ² + pudīcus modest; impudent ) + Middle French -ité -ity

Word History and Origins

Origin of impudicity¹

C16: from Old French impudicite, from Latin impudīcus shameless, from in- ¹+ pudīcus modest, virtuous

Example Sentences

In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been rather a symbol of merely animal impudicity.

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The House of Orleans seems in truth to have been tainted with hereditary impudicity of a morbid kind.

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For to the old gentleman's eyes there was an abiding impudicity about Cissie's very charms.

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Rufinus is a kind of second Straton in the firmness of his touch, the cynicism of his impudicity.

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