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

"Did that little malapert come with you?" asked Porbus of the older man.

From The Unknown Masterpiece 1845 by Balzac, Honoré de

Some said that his chaming and chirking of the paper was very ill-done of him, that he was over malapert and took too much upon him.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

A child's outcry, more "malapert" than the priest, called the attention of the lingerers, and before any one knew, the passion of destruction had seized like a frenzy upon the people.

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George

"And yet," continued the malapert, "methinks there is nothing to offer thee but some ham, or preserved pigs' tongues, which, of course, thou tastest not of."

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.