Example Sentences

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"Then 'twas very unpertinent for him to say so!"

From Dotty Dimple at Play by May, Sophie

"There are many unpertinent Witlings at Will's, that's certain; but then your Retailers of Politicks, or of second-hand Wit at Tom's, are ten times more intolerable."

From The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country by Gay, John