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Significados de pertness en inglés

Inappropriate playfulness.

Uso de pertness en inglés
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He has lost that vivacity and pertness so characteristic on the plantation.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
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And I like her better so, than to answer pert with pertness.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
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Now all her pertness to the former, she says, fly in her face.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8
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Formerly she had treated him with the free-and-easy pertness of a precocious child.
Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Mi...
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She introduced Prussia and Persia into their conversation with abominable pertness and frequency.
The Virginians
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They have a quaint pertness, a delightful conceit, a native self-assertion.
Miscellanies
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They asked us, with great pertness, what business we had there?
The Life of General Francis Marion
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There is in this piece more pertness than wit, and more confidence than knowledge.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 / ...
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Once, indeed, he was touched to the quick by a piece of schoolboy pertness.
Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
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And Garnache cursed this pertness of hers which was serving to dare him on.
St. Martin's Summer
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If we repel by pertness, we know who never does.
Roundabout Papers
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Then Lillian, who was not her match for pertness, spoke.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
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And I shall tell them to who I like, spite of Deda's pertness, mama.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
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I see Charles hasn't cured you of your pertness yet, miss-ma'am , Ishouldsay.
The Path to Honour
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Turn not thy cheek in scorn toward folk, nor walk with pertness in the land.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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Or, if the classics bore you, Watteau and the rococo pertness of the Grand Monarch.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
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