Malapert

Quick meaning: Malapert is a noun meaning (archaic) A cheeky, impudent, or saucy person.

Meaning

(archaic) A cheeky, impudent, or saucy person.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Cheeky, impudent, saucy.

Example Sentences

The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]

[…] Take heed of filling their [i.e., children's] heads with VVhimzies, and unprofitable Notions; for this vvill ſooner learn them to be malepert and proud, than ſober and humble.

Nevertheleſſe I finde him [Iohn Bodine] ſomewhat malapert and bolde in that paſſage of his Methode of Hiſtorie, when he accuseth Plutarke, not onely of ignorance […] but alſo that he often writeth, things altogether incredible and meerely fabulous (theſe are his very words).

A proud heart, evidencing itself in a saucy, malapert, aweless, and careless carriage, is most unbeseeming the condition of servants, and highly displeasing to God in them, as being opposite to that property of fear and trembling which ought to accompany their obedience: "Be obedient with fear and trembling."

Word Forms

• malaperts
• malepart

Synonyms for malapert

Depending on context, synonyms include minx, saucebox, cheeky.

Antonyms for malapert

Common opposites include sycophant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knave, saucebox, pert, snip, smartass, brazen-face.

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