| 单词 | impertinent |
| 释义 | im·pertinent I. 1. a. < should rigidly exclude courses of study impertinent to their central purposes — H.W.Sams > b. obsolete c. archaic 2. < a child taught not to make impertinent remarks to his elders > < approach complete strangers, ask them a battery of impertinent questions — S.L.Payne > Synonyms: < all that had occurred to make my former interference in his affairs absurd and impertinent — Jane Austen > < we were secure from all impertinent interference in our concerns — Herman Melville > < something so extremely impertinent in entering upon a man's premises, and using them without paying — William Cowper > officious implies an offering of unwelcome or offensive services, attentions, or assistance < cannot walk home from office, but some officious friend offers his unwelcome courtesies to accompany me — Charles Lamb > < had no desire to call in a detective for fear the man might become an officious nuisance > : meddlesome stresses an annoying and usually prying interference in others' business < turns with scorn upon the Abolitionists and their meddlesome interference with the beneficent ways of Providence — V.L.Parrington > < a vain, meddlesome vagabond, and must needs pry into a secret which certainly did not concern him — Charles Kingsley > intrusive applies to one who has or something that reveals a disposition to be unduly curious about another's business < made an inconspicuous fourth in their small world, always at hand yet never intrusive — B.A.Williams > < to protect oneself by silence from well-meaning but intrusive friends > obtrusive is like intrusive but usually stresses more objectionable actions than a disposition, suggesting an undue, improper, or offensive conspicuousness of interference < she knelt and watched, quietly, without expressing any obtrusive concern for his safety — Floyd Dell > < the obtrusive attentions of sycophants and henchmen > II. |
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