Synonyms for impudent
ˈɪm pyə dəntim·pu·dent

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1. impudentadjective

   Synonyms:
   bold, brazen-faced, impertinent

2. impudentadjective

   Not showing due respect; impertinent; bold-faced

   The impudent children would not stop talking in class.

   Synonyms:
   brazen-faced, bold, impertinent

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1. impudent

   Synonyms:
   awkward, bluff, blunt, boorish, brusk, clownish, coarse, discourteous, ill-behaved, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, insolent, insulting, raw, rude, rustic, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, untaught, untutored

   Antonyms:
   accomplished, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, elegant, genteel, gracious, obliging, polished, polite, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered

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1. impudent

   Synonyms:
   impertinent, insolent, saucy, shameless, brazen-faced, rude, bold, immodest

   Antonyms:
   servile, obsequious, sycophantic, bashful, retiring, diffident, deferential, modest

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1. impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flipadjective

   marked by casual disrespect

   "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

   Synonyms:
   insolent, impertinent, wise, smart, fresh, bodacious, barefaced, snotty-nosed, brazen-faced, flip, bald-faced, saucy, brassy, sassy, audacious, overbold, brazen

   Antonyms:
   respectful, backward

2. fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wiseadjective

   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!"

   Synonyms:
   invigorated, wise, flip, chic, brisk, saucy, heady, new, pert, wise(p), smart, sassy, overbold, judicious, orthogonal, irreverent, clean, insolent, sweet, immaterial, impertinent, fresh, snotty-nosed, knowing, reinvigorated, novel, refreshing, refreshful, unused, voguish, tonic, refreshed, bracing, wise to(p), extraneous, unfermented, bright

   Antonyms:
   backward, respectful

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1. impudentadjective

   Synonyms:
   insolent, insulting, presumptuous, bold, shameless, impertinent, rude, saucy, pert, flippant, cool, brazen, forward, bold-faced, brazen-faced

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1. impudentadjective

   Synonyms:
   insolent, impertinent, flippant, pert, brazen, saucy

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1. List of paraphrases for "impudent":

   insolent, cocky, brazen, snotty, sassy, unashamed, cheeky

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How to use impudent in a sentence?

1. Jean-Francois Rameau:

   The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

2. William Penn:

   All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

3. Charles Horton Cooley:

   Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

4. Jane Austen:

   Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

5. Yong Ho:

   He is truly impudent enough to utter such thoughtless words which only leave us disappointed and skeptical as to whether we can solve any problem with such a guy.