impudent

From Middle French impudent, from Latin impudēns (“shameless”), ultimately from in- +‎ pudere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpjədənt/

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impudent (comparative more impudent or (informal) impudenter, superlative most impudent or (informal) impudentest)

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

   Synonyms: bold, brazen-faced; see also Thesaurus:cheeky

   The impudent children would not stop talking in class.

   • 1877, Emma Jane Worboise, “The New Evangeline”, in The Grey House at Endlestone, London: James Clarke and Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 480:

     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'?'

• impudently

• impudence

From Latin impudēns.

impudent (masculine and feminine plural impudents)

1. impudent

• impudentment

• impudència

• “impudent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “impudent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “impudent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “impudent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin impudēns.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.py.dɑ̃/

impudent (feminine impudente, masculine plural impudents, feminine plural impudentes)

1. impudent

• impudence

• “impudent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin impudēns.

impudent m (feminine singular impudente, masculine plural impudens, feminine plural impudentes)

1. impudent