How To Use Jackanapes In A Sentence

  • The grinning, slithering jackanapes is reportedly going to concentrate his sales pitch on the U.S., suspecting that we Brits would sooner chew our tongues than buy his book when it is published on Sept. 13. Boycott Blair's Book!
  • But do you realize that I would be looked upon as the most foolish jackanapes in the South Seas if I took a young girl like you in with me here on Berande?" he asked. Chapter 13
  • I, for one, want my effing money back from these two faced jackanapes. Think Progress » Letters Reveal Top GOP Lawmakers Demanded Stimulus Money As ‘Vital’ Job Creating Engines
  • I shan't pick up the 'jackanapes' or the 'rascal.' Dr. Dumany's Wife
  • As sure as I am Ole Nordistuen of the Hill Farms, I tell you the minister shall sooner call the banns for the fairy folk up on the Nordal forest than he shall speak such names from the pulpit as Marit’s and yours, you jackanapes! Chapter X
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  • It would be almost too easy to pull information out of this unctuous jackanapes. Earl of Durkness
  • Together we hypostatize the divine presence, not to be maligned by Jackanapes Marprelate orthographers!!! Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
  • ‘Now listen here, you jackanapes,’ I shouted, ‘enough of this horse-play.’
  • I was at a photo call at the Commons to snap a collection of the new input of MPs, a bunch of braying jackanapes and barrow boys made good in too-expensive suits.
  • As, on the other hand, Jackanapes (who had a boy's full share of the little beast and the young monkey in his natural composition) was none the worse, at his tender years, for learning some maidenliness, -- so far as maidenliness means decency, pity, unselfishness, and pretty behavior. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
  • A fair sight we are; and had I but a rebeck or a guitar at my back, and a jackanapes on my shoulder, we should seem as joyous a brace of strollers as ever touched string at a castle gate. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • The Countess might accuse him, but Harry never had the ambition to make people think him that: his natural tendency was the reverse: and he objected to the application of the word jackanapes to himself, and was ready to contest the fact of people having that opinion at all. Evan Harrington — Complete
  • I was at school with a Bruno, and as the grinning jackanapes sat at his piano and segued effortlessly from Bach to the Beatles and back again via Satie, nobody queued up to congratulate him; they simply wanted to beat him up.
  • The grinning jackanapes who has so arbitrarily dismantled the constitution is now half mad with power.
  • The grinning jackanapes in Number 10 must not be allowed to extinguish Britain's liberties: he and the Great Uncleanness that is New Labour must be evicted from power.

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