malapert

Example Sentences

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In Fleet Street we shall come upon Chaucer beating the malapert Franciscan friar; at Temple Bar, stare upwards at the ghastly Jacobite heads.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

"What! are we to sit here to listen to malapert railings against men of godly life and conversation?" he added, addressing himself to Winthrop.

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill

Ha! ha!" laughed the oddity who had volunteered this malapert response to the jester's inquiry, "yonder sign-post"—pointing to the aged dame—"has lost its fingers—or rather its ears.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

Hold your peace; are you growing malapert? will you force me to make use of my authority? your wife's a well disposed and a virtuous lady; I say it, In verbo sacerdotis.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Because of the malapert efforts of the builders, the mountain has shaken its monstrous sides with laughter till the tears ran adown its face and washed out their puny sticks and stones.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey