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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
arrogance, audacity, bold front, boldness, 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, effrontery, face of brass, flippancy, forwardness, freshness, gall, hardihood, immateriality, impoliteness, impudence, inapplicability, inappositeness, incivility, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, inquisitiveness, insolence, intermeddling, intrusiveness, irrelation, irrelevance, meddlesomeness, meddling, nerve, obtrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, separateness, unconnectedness, unrelatedness
Dictionary Results for impertinence:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
impertinence
    n 1: an impudent statement [syn: impudence, cheek,
         impertinence]
    2: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take
       liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence, impudence,
       insolence, cheekiness, freshness]
    3: inappropriate playfulness [syn: impertinence, perkiness,
       pertness, sauciness, archness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impertinence \Im*per"ti*nence\, n. [Cf. F. impertinence. See
   Impertinent.]
   1. The condition or quality of being impertinent; absence of
      pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.
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   2. Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or
      the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.
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            We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of
            pedants who affect to talk in a language not to be
            understood.                           --Swift.
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   3. That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no
      value.
      [1913 Webster]

            There are many subtile impertinences learned in
            schools.                              --Watts.
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