jackanapes

Example Sentences

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But after four cocktails the Coney Island jackanapes started to mislay its manners.

From BBC

This love, this royalty by jackanapes brought to earth, the stage to my back: what can a man affirm in such a position: flight?

From Project Gutenberg

I should not have believed the young jackanapes had so much heart.

From Project Gutenberg

You are a jackanapes and a finicky fool, that's what you are!

From Project Gutenberg

I inquired, when we were, soon after, upon again stopping, relieved of the presence of this jackanapes.

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