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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "pertness" in a sentence

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    pertness


    1. The latter alarmed at her recent indiscretion, and the disclosure she had made of her secret feelings in a transient fit of passion; the former, on mature consideration, really offended with her companion; and, if she laughed again at her pertness, inclined to make it no laughing matter to her


    2. I've got your letters, and if you give me any pertness I'll send them to your father


    3. His pride in her pertness, her high spirits and the quaint sweet manner she had of showing her love her beauty, her curls, her dimples, her graceful little gestures was boundless


    4. He many a time spoke sternly to me about my pertness; and averred that the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed


    5. Catherine and Isabella were sitting in the library, on hostile terms, but silent: the latter alarmed at her recent indiscretion, and the disclosure she had made of her secret feelings in a transient fit of passion; the former, on mature consideration, really offended with her companion; and, if she laughed again at her pertness, inclined to make it no laughing matter to her


    6. I’ve got your letters, and if you give me any pertness I’ll send them to your father


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    Synonyms for "pertness"

    pertness archness impertinence perkiness sauciness

    "pertness" definitions

    inappropriate playfulness


    quality of being lively and confident