impertinent

UK /ɪmˈpɜː.tɪ.nənt/ US /ɪmˈpɝ.tɪ.nənt/
adj 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.

“Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”

2

Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.

Curious speculations, and the contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, nor serve to promote our happiness, are but a more specious and ingenious sort of idleness

How impertinent that grief was which served no end!

noun

1

An impertinent individual.

Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.

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