malapertness

This was a cruel thing to me, and I blamed myself for my free speech; for now I have given her some pretence: and O! thought I, here I have, by my malapertness, ruined the only project I had left.

Pamela 2006

Yet he had, for his malapertness, one of his legs broken, and he that did it wished it had been his neck.

The Holy War 2001

"A little backward, forsooth, but with none of the malapertness of some pages."

In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Lucy Foster Madison 1898

God, and acquainting him with what happens in the world, and that with as much confidence and malapertness, as if he was their fellow-creature, and then very gravely walk home and please themselves with a vain conceit that they are more religious than their neighbours.

Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I. 1637-1708 1834

This was a cruel thing to me, and I blamed myself for my free speech; for now I have given her some pretence: and O! thought I, here I have, by my malapertness, ruined the only project I had left.

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725

Yet he had, for his malapertness, one of his legs broken, and he that did it wished it had been his neck.

The Holy war, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul John Bunyan 1658

Yet he had for his malapertness one of his legs broken, and he that did it wished it had been his neck.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

He had, for his malapertness, one of his legs broken, and he that did it wished it had been his neck - (Holy War).

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

'It is blasphemous to say that God will not hear us for our presumptuous malapertness unless we invoke the saints.'

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658