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| NOUN: | Informal. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall1, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal : brass, crust, uppishness, uppityness. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY. | | VERB: | Informal. To utter an impertinent rejoinder: talk back, talk up. Informal : sass. Idioms: give someone lip. See RESIST, WORDS.
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