malapert

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Ha! ha!" laughed the oddity who had volunteered this malapert response to the jester's inquiry, "yonder sign-post"—pointing to the aged dame—"has lost its fingers—or rather its ears.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

"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 Hillern, Wilhelmine von