adjective
- Marked by casual disrespect.
- usage: "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
- synonyms: insolent, snotty-nosed, flip
- Improperly forward or bold.
- usage: "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me"
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