impertinence

n.

1. The quality or condition of being impertinent, especially:
   1. Insolence.
   2. Irrelevance.
2. An impertinent act or statement.

noun

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, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, courtesy/discourtesy.

n

Definition: boldness
Antonyms: humility, manners, politeness

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Irrelevancy; the flaw of bearing no reasonable relationship to the issues or proceeding at hand.

An impertinent question is one that is immaterial or has no logical relation to the issue or controversy before the court.

IN BRIEF: Rudeness.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain (1835-1910), American writer, pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens.