ADVERB
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in an impudent or impertinent manner
a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently
How To Use pertly In A Sentence
- IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
- Expertly based on simple, smooth, sculptural lines, exploring colour by layering and integrating silk and viscose, adding another textural element to her work.
- He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.
- One of the girls had been to New York before, and fairly expertly navigated us to a tiny gay piano bar set in a tiny triangular building created by the intersection of grid lines and old Indian trails.
- Her fingers dug expertly into the knotted muscles of my shoulders, pummelled my back, massaged the tension out of my neck.
- Susan Heyward, as Sabrina, not only sparkles in the role, but pertly reasons her way through the character's dilemmas. Theater: 'Sabrina Fair' at Ford's Theatre is reviewed by Nelson Pressley
- Zen 8 was out of salmon skin, but we hit the jackpot at Sushi Kawa - the salmon was smashingly crispy, the rolls expertly composed.
- Charles rushes to his daughter's bedroom and expertly jabs her with the insulin syringe.
- It is always immensely humbling for we hacks to be in the presence of the Chancellor, given his facility for talking expertly about, apparently, everything under the sun.
- The first foot-weary shoppers began to emerge with one female shopper expertly manoeuvring a giant trolley containing a four-seater sofa to the check-out.