Impertinence

n.	1.	The condition or quality of being impertinent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.
	2.	Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility. We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants who affect to talk in a language not to be understood. - Swift.
	3.	That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no value. There are many subtile impertinences learned in schools. - Watts.

Noun	1.	impertinence - an impudent statement Synonyms: impudence, cheek
	2.	impertinence - the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties Synonyms: cheekiness, insolence, impudence, crust, freshness, gall
	3.	impertinence - inappropriate playfulness Synonyms: archness, pertness, sauciness, perkiness

arrogance, bold front, brash bearing, brashness, brass, brassiness, bravado, brazenfacedness, brazenness, bumptiousness, butting-in, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, cockiness, contempt, contemptuousness, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, despite, disassociation, disconnection, discourtesy, discreteness, disdain, disjunction, disjuncture, disregard, disrespect, disrespectfulness, dissociation, face of brass, flippancy, forwardness, freshness, gall, hardihood, immateriality, impoliteness, inapplicability, inappositeness, incivility, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, inquisitiveness, insolence, intermeddling, intrusiveness, irrelation, irrelevance, meddlesomeness, meddling, nerve, obtrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumptuousness, ridicule, separateness, unconnectedness, unrelatedness

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