pertness

Sooner or later the boy would pay for his pertness.

He has been allowed to keep his cap, which gives him a certain pertness.

They asked us, with great pertness, "what business we had there?

He made up for it with the aggression and pertness, even towards his teachers.

He will see through all her pertness if she isn't careful.

The prickly pertness, which he thought might have been the girl's way of flirting, was gone.

The wide innocence of her look robbed the words of pertness.

The pertness of her features was gone too; lips thicker, nose less pointed.

Each group has a leitmotif but all tend toward either swagger or pertness.

The pertness Anna remembered was gone, replaced by hollow eyes and exhaustion.

That countess was pert with many generations of pertness in her.

She was a brunette, with a sort of stateliness to her good looks that the other's pertness lacked.

Once, however, she retorted, with a rather grim pertness: "He'll have to get tired of me first."

Then he turned the key and stood there in the open doorway with a carefully studied expression of forlorn pertness on his small black face.

Katrina Killian, as the girl in red, danced with engaging pertness.

This is no time for hobbit pertness.

Religious discourse "favors gravity, not pertness," he wrote.

Almost Kenny could see him chirking up into insolence and the pertness of a bird.

Through the pertness and crispness of her dancing, she suggested that Swanilda was clever.

He fluffed the lace-paper collar encircling them with proprietary care, restoring its pertness.

Colonel Fergusson nodded indulgently at such pertness and obstinacy, but held his peace.

It was, in fact, her unchanging pertness and apparent low need of maintenance that had earned her the nickname "Pet."

He loved her pertness, her high spirits and the quaint sweet manner she had of showing her love for him.

Ashley Tuttle, as the cupid figure, married pertness and precision, not least in her delicious scurries on toe.

At times, too, when the wild fit was upon her, she would break into pertness and rebel openly against Alleyne's gentle firmness.