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Meanings of archness in English
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
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.
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 archness in English
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.
6
The first hint of her old combative spirit or her old archness!
7
They told me that archness in a 10-year-old was not welcome.
8
Mr. Teal wagged his head at him with a kind of priestly archness.
9
There appeared on Marion's face something that was like the ashes of archness.
10
Lydia's little tremulous air of archness dropped under this point-blank rejoinder.
11
Was there ever such beauty, such archness, such coquetry,-suchdamned elusiveness?
12
Lucy raised her eyes, and something of her natural archness played in their expression.
13
And the delicious archness in her tone captivated him anew.
14
To him the situation was incongruous with the terrible archness of a fat woman.
15
If I may propose myself-The roguish smile was lost in a radiant archness.
16
Never had her tales sparkled with such wit and archness.
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United Kingdom
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