malapertness

“This was a cruel thing to me, and I blamed myself for my free speech; for now I have given her some pretence: and O! thought I, here I have, by my malapertness, ruined the only project I had left.”

Pamela

“Yet he had, for his malapertness, one of his legs broken, and he that did it wished it had been his neck.”

The Holy War

“A little backward, forsooth, but with none of the malapertness of some pages.”

In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls

“God, and acquainting him with what happens in the world, and that with as much confidence and malapertness, as if he was their fellow-creature, and then very gravely walk home and please themselves with a vain conceit that they are more religious than their neighbours.”

Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.

“Yet he had for his malapertness one of his legs broken, and he that did it wished it had been his neck.”

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

“He had, for his malapertness, one of his legs broken, and he that did it wished it had been his neck - (Holy War).”

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

“It is blasphemous to say that God will not hear us for our presumptuous malapertness unless we invoke the saints.”

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03