Front | impudent |
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Pron | ['ɪmpjədənt] |
Back | 【impudent】 adj.厚颜的 The impudent boy made faces at the teacher. 那厚颜的男孩对老师扮鬼脸。 |
Vocab | impudentimproperly forward or bold
An impudent person is bold, sassy, and shameless. If you want to get into a fancy nightclub and you tell the bouncer, “Let me in, I’m much more beautiful than all these ugly losers in line,” that’s impudent behavior. Impudent comes from the Latin combination of im, meaning without, and pudens, meaning shame. We often call someone impudent if they’re disrespectful, snotty, or inappropriate in a way that makes someone feel bad. If you know someone has just lost all their money on the stock market, don’t be impudent and ask them how they’re going to afford gas money for their yacht. All forms of 'impudent' will appear on average once every 630 pages. impudence impudent impudently |
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