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Significados de pertness em inglês

Inappropriate playfulness.

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        Examples for "impertinence"
        Examples for "impertinence"
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        Housebuilders, not used to such impertinence from a Conservative minister, hit back.
        The Guardian
        2
        But I would not permit the impertinence were I in your case.
        The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2
        3
        But it was quite simply said, without the faintest idea of impertinence.
        The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
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        She begged my pardon for her impertinence; I remain friendly towards her.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
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        She had mock-scolded him for impertinence, and left with her heart eased.
        Commuters: a novel
        1
        There was no archness in her glance; her humor was wholly masculine.
        The Rim of the Desert
        2
        Nods and becks and a mysterious archness of expression pointed the question.
        The Path to Honour
        3
        There came an archness into her look that inflamed me the more.
        Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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        But Blancanieves has a tangy intensity that easily compensates for any archness.
        The Irish Times
        5
        She tossed up her fingers lightly, with a perfect charm of archness.
        The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 2
        1
        But I like a little spice of sauciness; I think it takes.
        Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
        2
        She-she is innocence and simplicity itself, in spite of her roguish sauciness.
        Serapis — Volume 02
        3
        If she could only make herself heard, I should have some sauciness.
        Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
        4
        And as married men with children we will not stand for this latest sauciness.
        A singular man
        5
        Going to Putnam, she said, with a dash of sauciness, I have succeeded, general.
        Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan...
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        Finally we're beginning to see a little more perkiness in the money numbers.
        Reuters
        2
        Her usual expression of perkiness dissolved and she glared at Ari.
        Masked
        3
        So what should we be eating instead -for optimum perkiness?
        The Guardian
        4
        The perkiness levels could be the reason so many people find her so annoying.
        The Irish Times
        5
        When Cotterill caught sight of Denry he straightened himself into a certain uneasy perkiness.
        The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
        Uso de pertness em inglês
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        He has lost that vivacity and pertness so characteristic on the plantation.
        Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
        2
        And I like her better so, than to answer pert with pertness.
        Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
        3
        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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