malapert

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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 had a wife—may heaven bless her soul—but when it happened sometimes that she played malapert, I used to mount the high horse, and bring out my thunder.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John

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 Payne, John

"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

“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