Synonyms for impudence
ˈɪm pyə dənsim·pu·dence

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1. impudencenoun

   Synonyms:
   cheek, sauciness

2. impudencenoun

   The quality of being impudent, not showing due respect.

   Synonyms:
   sauciness, cheek

3. impudencenoun

   Impudent language, conduct or behavior.

   Synonyms:
   sauciness, cheek

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1. impudence

   Impertinence primarily denotes what does not pertain or belong to the occasion or the person, and hence comes to signify interference by word or act not consistent with the age, position, or relation of the person interfered with or of the one who interferes; especially, forward, presumptuous, or meddlesome speech. Impudence is shameless impertinence. What would be arrogance in a superior becomes impertinence or impudence in an inferior. Impertinence has less of intent and determination than impudence. We speak of thoughtless impertinence, shameless impudence. Insolence is literally that which is against custom, i. e., the violation of customary respect and courtesy. Officiousness is thrusting upon others unasked and undesired service, and is often as well-meant as it is annoying. Rudeness is the behavior that might be expected from a thoroughly uncultured person, and may be either deliberate and insulting or unintentional and even unconscious. Compare ARROGANCE; ASSURANCE; EFFRONTERY; PERTNESS.

   Synonyms:
   assurance, boldness, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumption, rudeness, sauciness

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, submissiveness

   Preposition:
   The impudence of, or impudence from, a subordinate to a superior.

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1. impudence

   Synonyms:
   impertinence, insolence, assurance, effrontery, rudeness, sauciness, shamelessness, audacity, hardihood

   Antonyms:
   obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement, sycophancy, flunkeyism, humility

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1. impudence, cheek, impertinencenoun

   an impudent statement

   Synonyms:
   archness, boldness, freshness, perkiness, insolence, crust, cheekiness, impertinence, buttock, brass, face, cheek, gall, sauciness, nerve, pertness

2. crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshnessnoun

   the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, saddle sore, rancour, archness, encrustation, insolence, rancor, bile, resentment, novelty, cheekiness, impertinence, perkiness, freshness, cheek, crust, incrustation, gall, sauciness, glow, pertness

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1. impudencenoun

   Synonyms:
   insolence, assurance, presumption, boldness, shamelessness, effrontery, rudeness, impertinence, sauciness, pertness, flippancy, brass, front, face, CHEEK

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1. impudencenoun

   Synonyms:
   insolence, impertinence, effrontery, rudeness

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1. List of paraphrases for "impudence":

   insolence

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How to use impudence in a sentence?

1. Menander:

   The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.

2. Bernard Mandeville:

   Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.

4. Johann Kaspar Lavater:

   I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

5. Aleister Crowley:

   It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.