Crossword clues for impertinently
impertinently
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impertinently \Im*per"ti*nent*ly\, adv.
In an impertinent manner. ``Not to betray myself
impertinently.''
--B. Jonson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from impertinent + -ly (2).
Wiktionary
adv. In an impertinent manner.
WordNet
adv. in an impudent or impertinent manner; "a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently" [syn: saucily, pertly, freshly, impudently]
Usage examples of "impertinently".
As N'ton slid down the bronze shoulder, his brown fire-lizard, Tris, appeared and settled impertinently on Ruth's upper crest, chirping smugly.
They stank and they gibbered, they uttered incomprehensibilities and obscenities, they messed impertinently with her clean dishes, and pawed through her carefully stacked foodstuff’s.
The private citizen, however diligently he may divest his home of mirrors and however carefully he may cover windows and polished tables, has daily to encounter public mirrors, shop windows, and innumerable reflecting surfaces from which decades and scores of years of faces, his own and those of strangers, peer out impertinently to mock him.