IMPUDENCE ([page 213]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does impertinence primarily denote? What is its common acceptation? 2. What is impudence? insolence? 3. What is officiousness? 4. What does rudeness suggest?
EXAMPLES.
With matchless —— they style a wife
The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life.
It is better not to turn friendship into a system of lawful and unpunishable ——.
A certain class of ill-natured people mistake —— for frankness.