NOUN
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quality of being lively and confident
there was a pertness about her that attracted him - inappropriate playfulness
How To Use pertness In A Sentence
- Even lesbians and bisexual women, who may quite rightly be assumed to be fonder of women's bodies than the average straight gal, do not get their Rice Krispies while thinking of the pertness of their own breasts. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
- Almost Kenny could see him chirking up into insolence and the pertness of a bird. Kenny
- Paraprofessional aides are much less technically expert than are professionals, but they often more than make up for their lower degree of technical expertise through their greater social expertness. Diffusion of Innovations
- He doesn't know much about it, if he calls a wigwam a wampum," interposed Miss Smith, with still greater pertness. A Fair Barbarian
- She has looks, a voice and that ageless soubrette pertness - the total musical comedy package.
- there was a pertness about her that attracted him
- These factors all have the potential for conveying expertness.
- Newcomers to the field who regarded me with affection faced an additional deterrent to challenging my expertness: they feared hurting my feelings as well as earning my disapproval.
- P would wear these semi-see-thru tops and her nipples would be poking through almost skyward in their pertness: they were amazing I tell you, I was transfixed.
- So there's Girl and NML parading around in thongs of varying stringiness and bottom pertness, making we mere bottom-mortals feel bad.