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 Translation for 'impertinence' from English to Russian
SYNO archness | cheek | cheekiness | ...
дерзость {ж} [грубость, непочтительность]impertinence
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Usage Examples English
  • The colour adds to the impertinence expressed through his gestures.
  • This was openly denounced as an impertinence by the Irish MPs and the clergy itself divided on the issue.
  • The questions the interviewer will be erased to make room for all the verve of the Catalan painter who recites with humor and impertinence his surrealist ideas.
  • The question irritated Hawke, who criticised Carleton for his "damned impertinence".
  • When he criticises her cruel policies, a guard lashes him for impertinence.

  • "They fired me after I'd been there seven months, for labor activities and impertinence," he once said.
  • Scott sings with a sassy impertinence that recalls dark heroines from Dinah Washington and Rickie Lee Jones to Beth Gibbons, while Kochmer's stylized arrangements recall Zero 7, Air and a touch of Massive Attack.
  • Soon after the wedding, she became involved in a conflict with the emperor's favorite concubine, Consort Wan, and ordered her to be whipped for impertinence.
  • True to form, Muscat's former impertinence resumed.
  • After the arrest, he was described by neighbors as someone who went to the theatre, met people at the train station and walked about in public with “unheard of impertinence.” This is one of the reasons he became suspect.

  • The editors of "The Lancet" published an editorial in May 1999 in which they denounced all parties involved, criticizing Pusztai for "unwisely" announcing his results on television and stating that scientists should publish "results in the scientific press, not through the popular media"; the editorial also denounced the Royal Society's review as "breathtaking impertinence".
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