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malepart

malepart is the obsolete form of malapert.

Meaning of malapert

Adjective

malapert (comparative more malapert, superlative most malapert)

  1. (archaic) Cheeky, impudent, saucy.
    • The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]a. 1530 (date written), John Skelton, “Poems against Garnesche. Skelton Laureate Defendar ageinst Lusty Garnyshe Well Beseen Crystofer Chalangar, et cetera.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical...
    Synonyms:
    cheeky

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Forms of malepart

comparativemore malepart
superlativemost malepart

Questions about malepart

What is malepart the obsolete form of?
Malepart is the obsolete form of malapert.

Words near malepart in the dictionary

  1. maleo
  2. maleocracies
  3. maleocracy
  4. maleolent
  5. maleos
  6. malepart
  7. malepractice
  8. malepractices
  9. maler
  10. Malerkotla
  11. maleruption

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malepart (page history and authors); malapert (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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