malapert
/ˈmaləpəːt
/archaic
adjective
Boldly disrespectful; impudent.Indeed, we aim to show that the somewhat malapert remarks of Derrida on Fukuyama open up onto something that is much more significant than scorn....
- Nay, then I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from you.
- The fool was a very humble person, haunting kitchen and scullery, messing almost with the dogs, and liable, when malapert, to a whipping.
noun
An impudent person.The rest of you who are learners, healthy skeptics, and marketing malaperts will find lessons within....
- A lively and crude cast of food wizards and malaperts enliven Bourdain's narrative.
- One other thing, the featured lackbrains and malaperts were only a few of the attendees for the first two panel discussions at the Vision America conference
Origin
Middle English: from mal- 'improperly' + archaic apert 'insolent'.
Rhymes
- Cornwall
- Cornwall, Duchy of
- Cornwallis, Charles
- corny
- corolla
- corollary
- corolla tube
- coromandel
- Coromandel Coast
- coromandel ebony
- coromandel wood
- Corona
- Corona Australis
- Corona Borealis
- coronach
- corona discharge
- Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de
- coronagraph
- coronal
- coronal bone
- coronal plane
- coronal suture
- coronary
- coronary artery
- coronary care unit