impudent

impudent
    adj 1: marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious
           question"; "the student was kept in for impudent
           behavior" [syn: {impudent}, {insolent}, {snotty-nosed},
           {flip}]
    2: improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me";
       "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent
       boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
       [syn: {fresh}, {impertinent}, {impudent}, {overbold},
       {smart}, {saucy}, {sassy}, {wise}]
    

Impudent \Im"pu*dent\ ([i^]m"p[-u]*dent), a. [L. impudens,
   -entis; pref. im- not + pudens ashamed, modest, p. pr. of
   pudere to feel shame: cf. F. impudent.]
   1. Behaving boldly, with contempt or disregard for propriety
      in behavior toward others; unblushingly forward;
      impertinent; saucy.
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            More than impudent sauciness.         --Shak.
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            When we behold an angel, not to fear
            Is to be impudent.                    --Dryden.
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   2. Lacking modesty; shameless. [Obs.]
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   Syn: Shameless; audacious; brazen; bold-faced; pert;
        immodest; rude; saucy; impertinent; insolent.
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78 Moby Thesaurus words for "impudent":
      arrant, arrogant, audacious, aweless, barefaced, biggety, blatant,
      bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious,
      challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocksure, cocky, contemptuous,
      contumelious, crusty, daring, defiant, defying, derisive,
      discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful,
      facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous,
      greatly daring, hubristic, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite,
      improvident, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious,
      insolent, irreverent, malapert, nervy, overbold, overcareless,
      overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, presumptuous,
      procacious, rash, regardless of consequences, ridiculing, rude,
      sassy, saucy, shameless, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass,
      temerarious, unabashed, unblushing, uncalled-for, unchary, uncivil,
      unwary, wise-ass