Definition of "impudent"
impudent
adjective
comparative more impudent or (informal) impudenter, superlative most impudent or (informal) impudentest
Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.
Quotations
Sir Iohn, ſir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cauſe,the falſe way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come with ſuch (more then impudent) ſawcines from you, can thruſt me from a leuell conſideration, […]
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i], page 79, column 2
And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, 'Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'
1877, Emma Jane Worboise, “The New Evangeline”, in The Grey House at Endlestone, London: James Clarke and Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], page 480
(obsolete) Lacking modesty or shame; indelicate.
Quotations
Dian. Good my Lord,Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do’s thinkeHe had not my virginity.Kin. What ſaift thou to her?Ber. She’s impudent my Lord,And was a common gameſter to the Campe.Dia. He do’s me wrong my Lord: If I were ſo,He might haue bought me at a common price.
c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii], page 252, column 2
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him, I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes. Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Proverbs 7:13–15