[
UK
/pˈɜːkinəs/
]
NOUN
- cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
- inappropriate playfulness
How To Use perkiness In A Sentence
- True, there will be patches of perkiness in the emerging world.
- The perkiness of her French-Canadian accent resonates in Seripop's vibrant work.
- What you get is the smokiness of the pancetta, the flavor-charge of the garlic, the brightness of the broccoli, the perkiness of the cheese.
- She's got real skill as a comedienne and the super-perkiness of the character is a perfect fit for her talents.
- I've always suspected that underneath a woman of such gentlene perkiness lurked the heart of a tigress.
- And smile enforcement is just the beginning; a whole slate of behavior-recognition software will someday pick people out of a crowd for insufficient perkiness.
- To square this never-ending circle, teleworkers are having to dig deeper into themselves, employ ever-greater amounts of emotional muscle power, to sustain the required level of perkiness.
- To be fair, he makes a placid and generous early morning companion, unlikely to alarm with any gratuitous perkiness.
- Watching Mima's personality collapse is heart-rending and compelling: she gets to a point where she doesn't know where she ends and the construct - the rictus smile, the perkiness - begins.
- And smile enforcement is just the beginning; a whole slate of behavior-recognition software will someday pick people out of a crowd for insufficient perkiness.