malapert

• “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.”

  Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets

• “Margerate has great lines through out though- calling Elizabeth 'pale painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune' and saying to Dorset 'master marquess you are malapert, your fire stamp of honour is scarce current'.”

  [shakespearean insults] time for some more

• ““And you, too, are malapert, mistress!” said the Lady;”

  The Abbot

• ““Thou art ill-advised, thou malapert boy,” replied the steward, “to speak to me in such fashion; but I shall inform my Lady of thine insolence.””

  The Abbot

• “Go to, sir, know yourself, or the master of the household shall make you know you are liable to the scourge as a malapert boy.”

  The Abbot

• ““What, ho! is my young master malapert?” said Christie;”

  The Monastery

• “Conrade Horst forced his way over moat and wall, must thou be malapert? —”

  Quentin Durward

• “I do approve that of St. Ambrose (Comment. in Genesis xxiv. 51), which he hath written touching Rebecca's spousals, A woman should give unto her parents the choice of her husband, [5876] lest she be reputed to be malapert and wanton, if she take upon her to make her own choice; [5877] for she should rather seem to be desired by a man, than to desire a man herself.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “But of all those astrological aphorisms which I have ever read, that of Cardan is most memorable, for which howsoever he is bitterly censured by [4763] Marinus Marcennus, a malapert friar, and some others (which [4764] he himself suspected) yet methinks it is free, downright, plain and ingenious.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “He is ill, and suffering doubtless under the fear of our displeasure, from which he hath been honestly cleared by the frank avowal of this malapert boy.”

  Kenilworth

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