malapert
Example Sentences
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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
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
"Take this malapert boy with the others," cried the squire to the constable, and I could see that he was much angered against me.
From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James
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 Reade, Charles
