malapert
Example Sentences
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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
The folk are sure to recognize you, malapert," said he, giving Stuteley his favorite name for him, "and there will be an outcry.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
"I'll e'en fetch him to you myself, malapert," said Warrenton.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
“What is this to thee, thou malapert knave?” cried Humphrey Chetham, reddening, partly from anger, partly, it might be, from another emotion.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
"What! are we to sit here to listen to malapert railings against men of godly life and conversation?" he added, addressing himself to Winthrop.
From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams
