| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, bold, boldfaced, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, 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. Characterized by unthinking boldness and haste: foolhardy, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hotheaded, ill-considered, impetuous, improvident, impulsive, incautious, madcap, precipitant, precipitate, rash1, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, unconsidered. See CAREFUL. 3. Lacking sensitivity and skill in dealing with others: clumsy, gauche, impolitic, indelicate, maladroit, tactless, undiplomatic, unpolitic, untactful. See ABILITY, COURTESY.
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