malapert

Example Sentences

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While the real fool "haunted the kitchen and scullery, messing almost with the dogs, and liable, when malapert, to a whipping," the pretended fool was comparatively a companion to the sovereign who engaged his services.

From Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.

"I will say what I will in mine own house, thou evil, malapert boy!" roared the old man.

From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Everett-Green, Evelyn

"Did that little malapert come with you?" asked Porbus of the older man.

From The Unknown Masterpiece 1845 by Balzac, Honoré de

One morning, his barber, a malapert of the old comedies, ventured to ask him what he was thinking of.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

“What is this to thee, thou malapert knave?” cried Humphrey Chetham, reddening, partly from anger, partly, it might be, from another emotion.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison