(n.) The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.
(n.) Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(2) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(3) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
(4) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(5) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(6) They have informed, advocated and sometimes goaded participants in a way that will be entirely familiar to people in Europe.
(7) We're all familiar with this approach, which is based around meeting targets, and it's true that it got things done.
(8) The models provide structure and methods that are familiar to practicing nurses so that they may begin to work with colleagues and other researchers in the clinical setting.
(9) All subjects were tested on a variety of automated performance tests including the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) Task, Auditory-Visual Integration, Short-Term Memory, the Continuous Performance Task (CPT), and Motor Performance.
(10) These results suggest that the exposure-duration effect previously reported in hyperacuity studies is not specific to the localization task per se but rather is a suprathreshold version of the familiar form of spatiotemporal interaction seen in contrast-threshold results.
(11) The increased knowledge of endocrinology, cytobiology and embryology has also made stock farmers familiar with biotechnology.
(12) Read more Clinton spoke before more than a thousand supporters on Saturday at a launch event for “Women for Hillary” in New Hampshire, touching upon many of the familiar themes of her presidential campaign – equal pay for women, paid family leave, raising the minimum wage.
(13) Pediatricians are made familiar with antiviral drugs and are provided with specific recommendations for treatment of viral diseases.
(14) We describe the application of generalized linear model methodology to the problem of testing differences among ligand-receptor interactions, and show that the method is analogous to weighted least squares regression methodology and F tests familiar to many investigators.
(15) Many Iranian women are already pushing the boundaries , and observers in Tehran say women who drive with their headscarves resting on their shoulders are becoming a familiar sight.
(16) Therefore, it is incumbent upon clinicians to know the signs and symptoms of using steroids, and to be familiar with the clinical indications for urine testing.
(17) in conscious, unrestrained rats in a familiar environment.
(18) Unfamiliar-object-dominant neurons (n = 7) responded more to unfamiliar objects than to familiar objects.
(19) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(20) These results show that transthoracic Doppler echocardiography remains an excellent method of study and surveillance of mechanical valve prostheses but the limitations of the technique should be familiar to all operators.
Impertinence
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.
(n.) Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.
(n.) That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no value.
Example Sentences:
(1) I could stick my nose into everyone else's business and ask all the impertinent questions I wanted to.
(2) That is an impertinent question,” Abbott said when asked by a journalist whether he had been drunk.
(3) Linda Tirado, writer on poverty: ‘My instinct is to set off around the country asking impertinent questions’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Linda Tirado photographed in Washington, DC: ‘At least I have fertile land and a defensible perimeter.’ Photograph: Scott Suchman for the Observer I live in the heart of Trump country, in Meigs County, Ohio, a rural county struggling with poverty and addiction.
(4) When I awoke today on LA time my phone was full of impertinent digital eulogies.
(5) After I rebuked him for his impertinence in waiting in the wrong place, thereby delaying me for at least 12 seconds, he lead me out to his highly polished black Cadillac sedan.
(6) "British values" has unfortunately often ended up sounding like an impertinent appropriation of universal human values such as fairness, tolerance and the like.
(7) When the young atheists asked why they should submit to this impertinent demand, the hacks replied that the T-shirts were "of course, offensive".
(8) From Proust to Ellen DeGeneres, 10 gay works that changed the world Read more Of course, by highlighting the sexualities of these writers, I’m engaging in much the same impertinence.
(9) It emerged on Tuesday that Dershowitz has moved to formally strike the “outrageous and impertinent” allegations against him contained in the same Florida court motion naming the prince, which accuses the Harvard lawyer of having sexual relations with a minor in private planes and properties owned by Epstein.
(10) Though not so much as to accept the impertinent offer of marriage from Mr Guppy, for – if it is not too much to hope – I rather think that in 500 pages or so I may be betrothed to the handsome and warm-hearted Dr Woodcourt who gave me some reason for encouragement before leaving the narrative after being nice to Young Jo.
(11) Brendon Sewill, author of a history of Gatwick, Tangled Wings, and chair of the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign, said it was "impertinent" of Wingate to suggest that opposition had died away.
(12) Men make deliberately negative remarks to young women – impertinent comments about their clothes or hair – expecting to pique their interest and undermine their confidence at the same time.
(13) At a time when voting was extended to more working men, its newly enfranchised visitors could rant at a disliked politician or stare impertinently into the eyes of royalty.
(14) You suspected, too, that Frank Farina, the coach, had addressed them on the impertinence of Eriksson's scheme for this game.
(15) As a good Indian boy brought up to respect elders, such intergenerational impertinence doesn't come readily.
(16) By Tuesday he had launched a legal bid to formally strike the “outrageous and impertinent” claims about him containing in court filing, promised imminent defamation proceedings against Roberts and her lawyers, in both US and English courts, and submitted a sworn affidavit denying the accusations.
(17) Dear Mahvash Sabet, It’s almost an impertinence, I feel, to write to a poet who is being kept behind bars for her words and beliefs.
(18) None of the Oxford academics had such preposterous questions and his impertinence was treated was patronising disdain.
(19) He said the “factual details regarding with whom and where” she had sex were “immaterial and impertinent” to her argument that she should be allowed to join the lawsuit.
(20) "It is not meant to be anti-Sarkozy, but to be impertinent.