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the audacity that didn't read the room and didn't want to.
means A bold, disrespectful lack of shame — cheeky nerve that ignores politeness and propriety.
from From Latin impudentia, built on impudens 'shameless': the prefix in- 'not' fused with pudens, the present participle of pudere 'to feel shame.' So at its root, impudence is simply the state of not blushing when one ought to — the absence of that warm, cheek-reddening modesty the Romans called pudor. It reached English through the late Middle Ages, when shamelessness, then as now, was never in short supply.
- latin root
- impudens means shameless, literally without shame
- close cousin
- shares DNA with cheek, gall, and nerve
- survival trait
- often the first sign someone refuses to be small
- old insult
- once a serious charge in Victorian courtrooms
for instance
kanye west mtv vmas — interrupted taylor swift's acceptance speech in 2009, declaring beyoncé deserved the award instead