impudence
Shameless lack of respect
Impudence is bold disrespect or insolent behavior, especially from someone in a subordinate position toward an authority figure: The teacher wouldn't tolerate such impudence from her students.
The word carries an old-fashioned flavor, suggesting Victorian schoolmasters or affronted elders.
Someone showing impudence is impudent.
Bold, offensive disrespect
- impertinenceRude disregard for propriety
- rudenessDisrespectful social behavior
- incivilityRude or impolite behavior
- contemptDisdainful disregard
disdain · irreverence · mockery · derision · scorn · snub · affront · insult
Shameless, insolent boldness
- gallImpudent boldness or bitterness
- nerveSignal-carrying body fiber
- cheekAudacity or facial side
- chutzpahShameless, admirable audacity
temerity · brashness · brazenness · boldness · presumptuousness · forwardness · shamelessness · brass
Defying workplace authority
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- contumacyObstinate resistance to authority
- rebelliousnessTendency toward defiant resistance
- recalcitranceStubborn refusal to obey
obstinacy · noncompliance · unruliness · willfulness · mutinousness · intractability · contrariness · stubbornness
Disdainful sense of superiority
- superciliousnessScornful sense of superiority
- presumptionBelief held without proof
- self-importanceExaggerated sense of significance
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
hubris · pomposity · high-handedness · imperiousness · loftiness · condescension · snobbery · lordliness
insolence
Bold, offensive disrespect
- impertinenceRude disregard for propriety
- rudenessDisrespectful social behavior
- incivilityRude or impolite behavior
contempt · disdain · irreverence · mockery · derision · scorn · snub · affront · insult · disparagement
effrontery
Shameless, insolent boldness
chutzpah · temerity · brashness · brazenness · boldness · presumptuousness · forwardness · shamelessness · brass · cockiness
insubordination
Defying workplace authority
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- contumacyObstinate resistance to authority
- rebelliousnessTendency toward defiant resistance
recalcitrance · obstinacy · noncompliance · unruliness · willfulness · mutinousness · intractability · contrariness · stubbornness · resistance
haughtiness
Disdainful sense of superiority
- superciliousnessScornful sense of superiority
- presumptionBelief held without proof
- self-importanceExaggerated sense of significance
conceit · hubris · pomposity · high-handedness · imperiousness · loftiness · condescension · snobbery · lordliness · uppityness
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- misbehaviormisbehave, misbehavior, mischief, misconduct, naughty
- mischiefmischief, hijinks, antics, pranks, antic
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
- backtalkbacktalk, sass, lip, backchat, talk back
- presumptuousnesspresumptuousness, impertinence, audacity, forwardness, boldness
impudencedeference
Yielding to another's judgment
respect · respectfulness · reverence · humility · submissiveness
impudencepropriety
Correctness of conduct
decorum · decorousness · gentility · genteelness · politesse
impudencemodesty
Absence of vanity
humility · shame · bashfulness · humbleness · meekness