pertin a sentence
pert as in: pert nose
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Anyway," she said, pertly, "the suicides is all over there, on the other side of that hawthorn, and the gallows-birds are in the blackberry-patch, both of them.† (source)
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He turned to the Torrances as she strolled away, backside twitching pertly.† (source)
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"Yes, she did," said another Squirrel, even perter.† (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)
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This is no time for hobbit pertness.† (source)
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Ruthie said pertly, "It ain't no crazier'n a lot of things.† (source)
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Celaena rapped a finger on the queen's pert nose.† (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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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)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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—to turn into some pert-mouthed, strident angry-girl.† (source)
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"I did put it back," said Anne quickly—pertly, Marilla thought.† (source)
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He loved her pertness, her high spirits and the quaint sweet manner she had of showing her love for him.† (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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—he winked pertly at Duncan, and went back to his fingers.† (source)
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[Smiling at her pertness.† (source)
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A few days with Miss Greene and already it looked pert and alive.† (source)
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rare meaning
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Pert near ever'body out here's a no-'count.
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Pert = slang for pretty
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