Definition of Jackanapes
a conceited, sarcastic, and/or brutish individual
Examples of Jackanapes in a sentence
Narcissus was such a conceited jackanapes that when he glimpsed himself in a mirror, he fell in love. π
The jackanapes was so full of himself that when a girl rejected him, he refused to believe it. π
He had the confident posture and half smirk of the average jackanapes, but somehow seemed even more conceited. π
The English major often joked that her sarcastic boyfriend was a jackanapes, much like the arrogant men in Victorian literature. π
Brielle couldn't stand Bryan because he was a sarcastic, brutish jackanapes and completely full of himself. π
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