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

The contemplative and the jackanapes are two faces of a deeply separated nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three years later, on the advice of his jackanapes genius cousin, Sam Adams, who had the workingmen of Boston in his political pocket, John moved to the city.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this uncomfortable juncture, I perceived with no little confusion that Bono watched us, grinning a wide, jackanapes smile; which cajolery threw me into more distress.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson