impudent

adj

1. Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent.

   “The impudent children would not stop talking in class.”

   “Sir Iohn, ſir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cauſe,the falſe way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come with ſuch (more then impudent) ſawcines from you, can thruſt me from a leuell conſideration, […]”

   ““Wickam,” retorted Mrs. Pipchin, coloring, “is a wicked, impudent, bold-faced hussy.””

   “And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, 'Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'”

2. (obsolete)Lacking modesty or shame; indelicate.

   “Dian. Good my Lord, Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do’s thinke He had not my virginity. Kin. What ſaift thou to her? Ber. She’s impudent my Lord, And was a common gameſter to the Campe. Dia. He do’s me wrong my Lord: If I were ſo, He might haue bought me at a common price.”

   “So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him, I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes. Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.”

   “Wine and women will make men of vnderstanding to fall away, and he that cleaueth to harlots will become impudent.”