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pert as in:  a pert receptionist

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    She chose the least obsessively pert of the three receptionists.†  (source)
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    I had to, with my married girlfriends, the ones who live in terror of the pert au pair or the pretty, funny girl in the office who can talk about football and spends half her life in the gym.†  (source)
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    So I said, quite pert, I'd trust my head to the Red Indians sooner than I'd trust it to you, and he laughed; but I was in earnest.†  (source)
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    With old gentlemen, a girl was pert and saucy and almost, but not quite, flirtatious, so that the old fools' vanities would be tickled.†  (source)
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    He turned to the Torrances as she strolled away, backside twitching pertly.†  (source)
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    He could have spoken at length of her beauty: the smooth sweep of her forehead, the coppery gold of her eyebrows and lashes, the pertness of her nose, her shell-like ears, the combination of fragility and stubborn strength in her face that sometimes made his heart ache when he watched her sleeping, the inquisitiveness and unmistakable intelligence that informed her every expression.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "Yes, she did," said another Squirrel, even perter.†  (source)
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    "A terrible worker and driver," Mrs. Peter was said to be; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess, and her family of pert, quarrelsome children.†  (source)
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    LIZA [pertly] You'd better leave a note for Mrs. Pearce about the coffee; for she won't be told by me.†  (source)
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    His eyes went to the brown skirt, to the tailored jacket, costly and cold like a uniform, to the hand with a hole in the finger of an expensive glove, to the lapel that bore a preposterous ornament—a bow-legged Mexican with red-enameled pants—stuck there in a clumsy attempt at pertness; to the thin lips, to the glasses, to the eyes.†  (source)
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    He was very pert and lively, and hopped about so close to her feet, and put his head on one side and looked at her so slyly that she asked Ben Weatherstaff a question.†  (source)
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    And whereas the wife of the eldest son shrank away when he looked at her and hid her face behind her sleeve, this one laughed out, good humored and robust as she was, and she answered pertly, "Well, and some men like a taste of hot radish, or a bite of red meat."†  (source)
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    This is no time for hobbit pertness.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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Pert near ever'body out here's a no-'count.  (source)
Pert = slang for pretty
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