Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpert
Literary usage of Overpert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What is Thought?: Or, The Problem of Philosophy by Way of a General by James Hutchison Stirling (1900)
"... only express itself by being overpert and malapert. Otherwise, so far as
conduct is concerned, Schelling's precocity seems to have made itself manifest, ..."
2. The Reckoning by Robert William Chambers (1907)
"No, I did not love her—could not love a maid, unripe and passionless, and overpert
at times, flouting a man like me with her airs and vapors and her ..."
3. What is Thought?: Or, The Problem of Philosophy by Way of a General by James Hutchison Stirling (1900)
"Orer- wise is apt to be overweening; and overweening can only express itself by
being overpert and malapert. Otherwise, so far as conduct is concerned, ..."
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