malapert

• I had a wife--may heaven bless her soul--but when it happened sometimes that she played malapert, I used to mount the high horse, and bring out my thunder. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
• Speed, the ablest of our chroniclers, gives at length her extemporal Latin reply to his harangue; adding in his quaint but expressive phrase, that she "thus lion like rising, daunted the malapert orator no less with her stately port and majestical deporture, than with the tartness of her princely checks: and turning to the train of her attendants thus said, 'God's death, my lords,' (for that was her oath ever in anger,) 'I have been inforced this day to scour up my old Latin, that hath lain long in rusting.'" —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
• 491. Fr. Müiere_, malapert, outrageous, ever doing one mischiefe or other. —  Caxton's Book of Curtesye
• Marmiton_, a saucie, malapert, or knauish fellow. —  Caxton's Book of Curtesye
• We will have tortures made to awe the slaves; Peace makes them ever proud and malapert, They'l be an Overseer of the State Valen_. —  A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4

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