Lexicographical Neighbors of Malapertly
Literary usage of Malapertly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"He may malapertly bragge in the vaine ostentation of his owne naturall conceit,
and, if it please him, make a Golden Calfe ..."
2. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1868)
"... the professed doctors of divinity, insomuch, that it was unseemly for any of
his subjects to argue with him so malapertly as the queen had just done. ..."
3. The Colloquies of Erasmus by Desiderius Erasmus, Edwin Johnson (1878)
"As often or whenever any one that is your Superior speaks to you, stand strait,
pull off your Hat, and look neither doggedly, surlily, saucily, malapertly, ..."
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