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Etymology
Etymology tree English impertinent Middle English -ly English -ly English impertinently From impertinent + -ly.
Meanings
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In an impertinent manner.
[…]his royal highness the great camelopard, as he stood stretching his interminable neck over the railing, impertinently watching them in their recreation.
1854, Grace Greenwood [pseudonym; Sara Jane Lippincott], chapter III, in Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 54:'Tis true, if Mythologie, and not demonſtrative reaſons vvere to be fixt upon in matters of Architecture, the former conceptions might be ſome ground to frame conjectures Stoneheng ſacred to Pan. But, Architecture depending upon demonſtration, not fancy, the fictions of Mythologiſts are no further to be embraced, then as not impertinently conducing to prove reall truths.
a. 1653 (date written), Inigo Jones, The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly Called Stone-heng on Salisbury Plain. […], London: […] James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman […], and Laurence Chapman […], published 1655, →OCLC, page 96:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most impertinently | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more impertinently | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Translations (7)
ru на́гло (in an impertinent manner) · cs nestydatě (in an impertinent manner) · ru дерзко (in an impertinent manner) · cs drze (in an impertinent manner) · ca impertinentment (in an impertinent manner) · ru нахально (in an impertinent manner) · pl impertynencko (in an impertinent manner)