malapert
Example Sentences
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"Did that little malapert come with you?" asked Porbus of the older man.
From The Unknown Masterpiece 1845 by Honoré de Balzac
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 Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
"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 James Hocking
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 Walter Thornbury
"My cheerfulness can bear some strain--but the malapert must be permitted to be silent sometimes when there are serious matters to be considered."
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
