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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IM'PUDENT, a. [L. impudens.] Shameless; wanting modesty; bold with contempt of others; saucy.
When we behold an angel, not to fear
Is to be impudent.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin impudent-, impudens, from in- + pudent-, pudens, present participle of pud?re to feel shame Date: 14th century 1. obsolete lacking modesty 2. marked by contemptuous or cocky boldness or disregard of others ; insolent • impudently adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 insolently disrespectful; impertinent. 2 shamelessly presumptuous. 3 unblushing. Derivatives: impudence n. impudently adv. Etymology: ME f. L impudens (as IN-(1), pudere be ashamed)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Impudent Im"pu*dent, a. [L. impudens, -entis; pref. im- not + pudens ashamed, modest, p. pr. of pudere to feel shame: cf. F. impudent.] Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. --Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. --Dryden. Syn: Shameless; audacious; brazen; bold-faced; pert; immodest; rude; saucy; impertinent; insolent.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as impudent, you mean they are rude or disrespectful, or do something they have no right to do. (FORMAL) Some of them were impudent and insulting. = cheeky ADJ [disapproval] • impudence One sister had the impudence to wear the other's clothes. = cheek

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Insolent, insulting, presumptuous, bold, shameless, impertinent, rude, saucy, pert, flippant, cool (colloq.), brazen, forward, bold-faced brazen-faced.

Moby Thesaurus

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