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Impudent vs Embarrassing - What's the difference?

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Impudent is a related term of embarrassing.


As adjectives the difference between impudent and embarrassing

is that impudent is not showing due respect; impertinent; bold-faced while embarrassing is causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness.

As a verb embarrassing is

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As a noun embarrassing is

the action of the verb to embarrass .

impudent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not showing due respect; impertinent; bold-faced
  • The impudent children would not stop talking in class.

    Synonyms

    * bold * brazen-faced * impertinent * See also

    embarrassing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to embarrass .
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}

    Synonyms

    * awkward

    Derived terms

    * embarrassingly