Sample Sentences forpert (auto-selected)
pert as in: a pert receptionist
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Right now, she eyed the Lamartine's pert flowery dress with such a look it despaired me.† (source)
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Celaena rapped a finger on the queen's pert nose.† (source)
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—to turn into some pert-mouthed, strident angry-girl.† (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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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 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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"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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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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Mr. Heathcliff having overheard the conversation, as well as I, smiled when he saw him go; but immediately afterwards cast a look of singular aversion on the flippant pair, who remained chattering in the door-way: the boy finding animation enough while discussing Hareton's faults and deficiencies, and relating anecdotes of his goings on; and the girl relishing his pert and spiteful sayings, without considering the ill-nature they evinced.† (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)
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She was pert and perfect and had the tiniest little ears I'd ever seen on anyone.† (source)
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"Tell us," said Mahony pertly to the man, "how many have you yourself?"† (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.
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Pert = slang for pretty
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