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- noun Plural form of
malapert .
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Examples
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Would that it were more common for poets openly to defy society's demands for efficiency, as certain children and malaperts of the poetic world have done!
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Accustomed to clever malaperts like Miss Lloyd or Miss Reeve, whose experienced pouts and smiles under the sun-bonnet are a standing burlesque of innocence and girlishness, Demos was really delighted, for once and away, to see the real presentment of these things upon his stage.
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Of all the malaperts of birddom none excel and few equal the white-eyed vireo for volubility and downright audacity.
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