impudicity

[ im-pyoo-dis-i-tee ]

noun

immodesty.

Origin of impudicity

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

Words Nearby impudicity

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How to use impudicity in a sentence

In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been rather a symbol of merely animal impudicity.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot | L. W. de Laurence
The House of Orleans seems in truth to have been tainted with hereditary impudicity of a morbid kind.
A Problem in Modern Ethics | John Addington Symonds
For to the old gentleman's eyes there was an abiding impudicity about Cissie's very charms.
Birthright | T.S. Stribling
Rufinus is a kind of second Straton in the firmness of his touch, the cynicism of his impudicity.
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2) | John Addington Symonds

British Dictionary definitions for impudicity

impudicity

/ (ˌɪmpjʊˈdɪsɪtɪ) /

noun

rare immodesty

Origin of impudicity

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

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