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
I am afraid she's too full fed; that makes her be so malapert; but had but I the ordering of her, I vow to gad I'd quickly make her pinch for't.
From The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women by Anonymous
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
"Take this malapert boy with the others," cried the squire to the constable, and I could see that he was much angered against me.
From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James
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
