malapert

Example Sentences

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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

"That malapert bumpkin will be no friend either to me or to your majesty," he said.

From St George's Cross by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)

"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 Adams, John Turvill

The woman was prepared to put on the airs of outraged dignity, she even glanced up at the malapert with scorn expressed in her small beady eyes.

From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

And tell me this one thing more, fair cousin, if it be not a malapert question.

From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Everett-Green, Evelyn