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What (who) is impertinent - definition
impertinent
adj.
1) impertinent to
2) impertinent to + inf. (it was impertinent of him to behave like that)
impertinent
If someone talks or behaves in a rather impolite and disrespectful way, you can say that they are being impertinent.
Would it be impertinent to ask where exactly you were?...
= impudent, cheeky
ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf
Impertinent
·noun An impertinent person.
II. Impertinent ·adj Trifing; inattentive; frivolous.
III. Impertinent ·adj Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable.
IV. Impertinent ·adj Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark.
Examples of use of impertinent
1. Some of them tried to be polite, others were impertinent.
2. It would be impertinent to claim to know what Hugo Young would have made of this.
3. Article continues Activists have begun to take his apparently impertinent bid seriously.
4. When the lecturer is their own all–grown–up child, they find it doubly impertinent.
5. But instead of showing contrition, Nord treated the lawmakers as if they were impertinent children.