jackanapes
Example Sentences
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Indeed, “those jackanapes Mets,” as the New Yorker’s Roger Angell called them, have long been celebrated for treating baseball as a kind of never-ending fraternity hazing.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2020
Other words Mr Bercow has used that other MPs have said extremely rarely, or never, include: "Demosthenian, "Einsteinian, "Flaubert", "Heidegger", "irascibility", "jackanapes", "rhapsodise", "susurrations" and "testicle".
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2019
Foreign Affairs Mischa Auer, gangling, rubber-faced, Russian-born cinema jackanapes, was removed from the vice-presidency of the Russian-American club of Los Angeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The contemplative and the jackanapes are two faces of a deeply separated nature.
From Time Magazine Archive
The jackanapes in the slashed pink doublet hissed.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
