malapert
Example Sentences
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You are malapert," said the lady with a toss of her head; "besides they are so dirty.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
Vaine-glorious, malapert, precise, deuout, Be tearmes which threaten those that go about To stand in opposition of our times With true defiance, or satyricke rimes.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
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 John Payne
While the real fool "haunted the kitchen and scullery, messing almost with the dogs, and liable, when malapert, to a whipping," the pretended fool was comparatively a companion to the sovereign who engaged his services.
From Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.
"I'll e'en fetch him to you myself, malapert," said Warrenton.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
