malapert

Example Sentences

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"I'll e'en fetch him to you myself, malapert," said Warrenton.

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

I dare say I looked over-long into one of the bright faces, and for a punishment was snatched into confusion by my malapert sister.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

A very malapert cur, I can tell him that; I do not like his fawning—You must be taught your distance, sirrah.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"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

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