malapert
Example Sentences
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Ha, girl, you were malapert when you were so unlucky as to blame one whom I praised!
From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown
"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
And tell me this one thing more, fair cousin, if it be not a malapert question.
From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Everett-Green, Evelyn
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
“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
