malapert
Example Sentences
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"I will say what I will in mine own house, thou evil, malapert boy!" roared the old man.
From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Everett-Green, Evelyn
But when he came to the hills, clad in shoddy finery to visit men in honest homespun, he bore himself with a cocksure dare-deviltry and malapert condescension.
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville
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
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.
Ha, girl, you were malapert when you were so unlucky as to blame one whom I praised!
From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown
