IMPUDENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impudently mean? 

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

1. in an impudent or impertinent manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPUDENTLY (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:

impudent (improperly forward or bold)

 Context examples 

Such was his confidence, that when a moose-bird impudently hopped up to him, he reached out at it with a playful paw.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Though aware, before she began it, that it must bring a confession of his inconstancy, and confirm their separation for ever, she was not aware that such language could be suffered to announce it; nor could she have supposed Willoughby capable of departing so far from the appearance of every honourable and delicate feeling—so far from the common decorum of a gentleman, as to send a letter so impudently cruel: a letter which, instead of bringing with his desire of a release any professions of regret, acknowledged no breach of faith, denied all peculiar affection whatever—a letter of which every line was an insult, and which proclaimed its writer to be deep in hardened villainy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I have perused several books of travels with great delight in my younger days; but having since gone over most parts of the globe, and been able to contradict many fabulous accounts from my own observation, it has given me a great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation to see the credulity of mankind so impudently abused.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)