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Meanings of pertness in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "impertinence"
Examples for "impertinence"
1
Housebuilders, not used to such impertinence from a Conservative minister, hit back.
2
But I would not permit the impertinence were I in your case.
3
But it was quite simply said, without the faintest idea of impertinence.
4
She begged my pardon for her impertinence; I remain friendly towards her.
5
She had mock-scolded him for impertinence, and left with her heart eased.
1
There was no archness in her glance; her humor was wholly masculine.
2
Nods and becks and a mysterious archness of expression pointed the question.
3
There came an archness into her look that inflamed me the more.
4
But Blancanieves has a tangy intensity that easily compensates for any archness.
5
She tossed up her fingers lightly, with a perfect charm of archness.
1
But I like a little spice of sauciness; I think it takes.
2
She-she is innocence and simplicity itself, in spite of her roguish sauciness.
3
If she could only make herself heard, I should have some sauciness.
4
And as married men with children we will not stand for this latest sauciness.
5
Going to Putnam, she said, with a dash of sauciness, I have succeeded, general.
1
Finally we're beginning to see a little more perkiness in the money numbers.
2
Her usual expression of perkiness dissolved and she glared at Ari.
3
So what should we be eating instead -for optimum perkiness?
4
The perkiness levels could be the reason so many people find her so annoying.
5
When Cotterill caught sight of Denry he straightened himself into a certain uneasy perkiness.
Usage of pertness in anglès
1
He has lost that vivacity and pertness so characteristic on the plantation.
2
And I like her better so, than to answer pert with pertness.
3
Now all her pertness to the former, she says, fly in her face.
4
Formerly she had treated him with the free-and-easy pertness of a precocious child.
5
She introduced Prussia and Persia into their conversation with abominable pertness and frequency.
6
They have a quaint pertness, a delightful conceit, a native self-assertion.
7
They asked us, with great pertness, what business we had there?
8
There is in this piece more pertness than wit, and more confidence than knowledge.
9
Once, indeed, he was touched to the quick by a piece of schoolboy pertness.
10
And Garnache cursed this pertness of hers which was serving to dare him on.
11
If we repel by pertness, we know who never does.
12
Then Lillian, who was not her match for pertness, spoke.
13
And I shall tell them to who I like, spite of Deda's pertness, mama.
14
I see Charles hasn't cured you of your pertness yet, miss-ma'am , Ishouldsay.
15
Turn not thy cheek in scorn toward folk, nor walk with pertness in the land.
16
Or, if the classics bore you, Watteau and the rococo pertness of the Grand Monarch.
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