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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, saucy, smart. Informal : brassy, flip, fresh, smart-alecky, snippety, snippy, uppish, uppity. Slang : wise1. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY. 2. Not relevant or pertinent to the subject; not applicable: extraneous, immaterial, inapplicable, irrelevant. Idioms: beside the point, neither here nor there. See RELEVANT.
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