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.