impertinently
- r in an impudent or impertinent manner
- Typical was the reply of Belgian Croesus Francqui, last week, when correspondents impertinently asked whether the Belgian Government is paying his expenses in Paris.
- More pertinently, and impertinently, Gideon pleads that his pity for fellow humans is above God's law.
- Then the camera peeped impertinently beneath the princess' royal skirts.