pertly
- a word derived from pert.
Example Sentences
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“Whether hunkered on the floor petting a dog or sitting pertly on a couch,” he wrote, “she is regal yet casual, arresting yet homespun.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025
The area immediately before us was flooded by sunlight: ancient machines with bobbins sitting pertly on their spindles, row after row of them, ready to whirl.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 11, 2016
Nora, barely looking up from her makeup compact, observes pertly, "Well, you might have put me first on the billing"; her delivery breezy as a spring afternoon.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2012
In this sequence they are joined by the show’s class clowns, the pertly girlish Laura Mead as Betsy, and the lovable goof Charlie Neshyba-Hodges as Marty.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2010
“Oh, he’s just a friendly old man,” she said very pertly.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
