Sentence example with the word 'whippersnapper'

whippersnapper

a nobody, cipher, gamin, juvenile delinquent, man of straw, nonentity, punk, scrub, smart-ass, swaggerer, zero

Definition n. someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

Last update: November 1, 2015


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And there's the skipper beckoning the whippersnapper to his cabin: the fat will be in the fire in five minutes.   [Please select]

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"Boy," he said that evening, "you ought to read Thackeray for style, and Washington Irving, and see what a whippersnapper you are."   [Please select]

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"You don't mean to say, Aaron Bickford, that you let a whippersnapper like that defy you."   [Please select]

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Suppose _Marna_ had married the first whippersnapper that came along, and he had carried her off to Australia, etc.   [Please select]

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"She's not the kind that takes to any whippersnapper that comes along."   [Please select]

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He was not accustomed to being treated with contempt, and the desire awoke within him to find some means of disconcerting this undersized whippersnapper who had almost succeeded in making him feel cheap.   [Please select]

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