pert
adjective
boldly forward in speech or behavior; impertinent; saucy.
pertness
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a word derived from
pert.
Example Sentences
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Stephanie Andrea Barron lends Iphigenia a benevolent pertness, but she doesn’t connect the romantic, sappy, impressionable daddy’s girl with the resolved martyr who refuses to let Acquah Kwame Dansoh’s geek-jock Achilles die for her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
Young women were felled by the pertness of the Pomeranian, the confectionery of a bichon frise.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2016
Ms. Worsham, with her bright soprano, matches him note for note, her girlish pertness persuading us that this naïve young woman would fall so hard so fast.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2014
Her lyric soprano had a wonderfully warm, buttery sound, and her performance radiated charm without slipping into pertness.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2012
She could have dealt with Walker, but glib pertness would not avail when this tall stranger's eyes were piercing her very soul.
From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy
