malapert
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Vaine-glorious, malapert, precise, deuout, Be tearmes which threaten those that go about To stand in opposition of our times With true defiance, or satyricke rimes.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
At this the cranes, putting down the other leg, all, after some steps, took to flight; whereupon Currado said to him, 'How sayst thou now, malapert knave that thou art?
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
"And yet," continued the malapert, "methinks there is nothing to offer thee but some ham, or preserved pigs' tongues, which, of course, thou tastest not of."
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall
You are malapert," said the lady with a toss of her head; "besides they are so dirty.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
But when he came to the hills, clad in shoddy finery to visit men in honest homespun, he bore himself with a cocksure dare-deviltry and malapert condescension.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
