Synonyms ofimpertinent

• as inwise
• as inrude
• as inirrelevant
• as inwise
• as inrude
• as inirrelevant
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• Relying on security architecture and mutual defense was notwise.
  — Frank Lavin,Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
• InfrastructurewiseWrexham are way behind the majority of their competitors.
  — The Athletic FC Podcast,New York Times, 2 May 2025

• There is something shocking, almostrude, about comparing the aims of wardens and guards to those of curators and artists, but McKenzie has her reasons.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi,Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
• But the 37-year-old doesn’t always see eye to eye with fans, at least not those who frequently heckle him, and Pham’s reaction is too oftenrude, crude and lewd.
  — Steve Henson,Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025

• This is pretty much your standard-issue focus-group scene, with dopey viewers idiotically nitpickingirrelevantdetails.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein,Vulture, 2 May 2025
• By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government asirrelevant, even treasonous.
  — Margaret MacMillan,The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025

• One chord appears to speak to the other, sounding almostimpudent in their simplicity, equal parts ecstatic and heartbreakingly melancholic.
  — Sam Davies,Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
• In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and animpudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington.
  — Edward P. Joseph,Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2016

• One’sinsolent, calling him lame and old, and the other affectedly infantile, but both are exhausting in their own way.
  — Keith Phipps,Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
• The government, in aninsolentfiling on Sunday evening, rewrote that instruction.
  — Ruth Marcus,New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025

• The healthcare system is filled withboldpromises and complicated policies.
  — William Jones,USA Today, 14 May 2025
• The future belongs to thoseboldenough to lead it.
  — Dr. Adil Dalal,Forbes.com, 13 May 2025

• President Trump is nothing if not audacious, evenbrazen, in charting a course distinct from his presidential predecessors.
  — Frank Lavin,Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
• In abrazeneffort to support SpaceX, lawmakers in the Texas state legislature tried to change that this spring, proposing a bill that gives the future mayor of Starbase, instead of the county, authority to control access to the beach on weekdays.
  — Ashley Killough,CNN Money, 2 May 2025

• But on the occasions when the ball did find him around the box, thecockyassurance that saw him nutmeg Branthwaite en route to scoring a 29-minute hat-trick in last season’s corresponding fixture was nowhere to be seen.
  — Liam Twomey,New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
• The Rock,cocky, handsome, and eager to flaunt his wealth and status, facing Stone Cold, the vicious everyman who can’t stand figures of authority.
  — Daniel Dockery,Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025

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