IMPERTINENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impertinently mean? 

• IMPERTINENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb IMPERTINENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an impudent or impertinent manner

  Familiarity information: IMPERTINENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERTINENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an impudent or impertinent manner

Synonyms:

freshly; impertinently; impudently; pertly; saucily

Context example:

a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently

Pertainym:

impertinent (improperly forward or bold)

 Context examples 

She meant to be impertinently curious, just as such an Anne Cox should be.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was broken by Lucy, who renewed the subject again by saying, with some hesitation, I cannot bear to have you think me impertinently curious.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Miss Steeles, as she expected, had now all the benefit of these jokes, and in the eldest of them they raised a curiosity to know the name of the gentleman alluded to, which, though often impertinently expressed, was perfectly of a piece with her general inquisitiveness into the concerns of their family.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)