malapert
Example Sentences
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Hold your peace; are you growing malapert? will you force me to make use of my authority? your wife's a well disposed and a virtuous lady; I say it, In verbo sacerdotis.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
In this same impious malapert he had recognised M. le Marquis de St. Genis!
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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
A child's outcry, more "malapert" than the priest, called the attention of the lingerers, and before any one knew, the passion of destruction had seized like a frenzy upon the people.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
