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adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

smart, fresh, impertinent, overbold, saucy

adj. improperly forward or bold; "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!"

discourteous

adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"

irreverent

adj. showing lack of due respect or veneration; "irreverent scholars mocking sacred things"; "noisy irreverent tourists"

sarcastic

adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

offensive

adj. causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"

arrogant, chesty, self-important

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

imperious, masterful

adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"

overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

brash, cheeky, nervy

adj. offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"

critical

adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

belittling, depreciative, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, slighting

adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

unmannered, ill-mannered, rude, unmannerly

adj. socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"

casual, insouciant, nonchalant

adj. marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner"

bold

adj. fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"

daring, audacious, venturesome, venturous

adj. disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"

impertinent, saucy, irreverent, pert

adj. characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner"

nervy, courageous

adj. showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers"

pushing, aggressive, enterprising, pushful, pushy

adj. marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young executive"; "a pushful insurance agent"; "a pushing youth intent on getting on in the world"

alert

adj. very attentive or observant; "an alert and responsive baby is a joy"; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"

chipper, perky, jaunty

adj. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist"

withering, devastating, annihilating

adj. making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert

insulting, scornful, disdainful, contemptuous

adj. expressing extreme contempt

contumelious

adj. arrogantly insolent

jeering, derisive, derisory, mocking

adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"

impious, undutiful

adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"

undeferential

adj. not showing courteous respect

brash, cheeky, nervy

adj. offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"

self-assertive, bumptious

adj. offensively self-assertive

familiar, overfamiliar

adj. taking undue liberties; "young women disliked the overfamiliar tone he took with them"

assumptive, assuming, presumptuous

adj. excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"

respectful

adj. full of or exhibiting respect; "respectful behavior"; "a respectful glance"

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