Examples of “jackanapes” in a Sentence

noun (humorous) A cheeky or badly behaved person, especially a mischievous child.

• Who were the aristocracy, to give themselves airs? Jackanapes! — John Galsworthy, Soames Keeps His Eyes Open (1926)
• By his extreme youth, he can only be a prancing jackanapes, and so I name him. — George Raymond Richard Martin, Sansa (1996)
• The boy wouldn't dare. (Rising choler.) Wouldn't dare to refuse the only sensible girl for miles around. That stubborn jackanapes refuse to marry a girl like you! — Joseph Conrad, One Day More: A Play in One Act (1904)