Sentence example with the word 'pertness'

pertness

activity, bold front, brazenness, cheekiness, contemptuousness, derision, gusto, jauntiness, lightsomeness, robustness, swelled head

Definition n. inappropriate playfulness

Last update: July 31, 2015


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"Elma," she said, "if you indulge in pertness I shall wash my hands of you."   [Please select]

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A few telling strokes of colour made them, and gave them a life and pertness that were clever enough.   [Please select]

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The pertness, the liveliness, the humor, the love of mischief, the fiendish ingenuity and perversity of which pigs are capable, can be fully known to the careworn pig-minder alone.   [Please select]

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The daughter having given early indications of quickness and pertness, came to be considered quite a genius by her family and friends, whose natural partiality soon induced her to entertain the same opinion.   [Please select]

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pertly - pertness - perturb