perky

Example Sentences

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Michelle is fluent in the perky command, the passive voice, the slippery non-apology, the kind of language that frames cruelty as blameless happenstance.

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She dreamed of looking like perky, platinum blond Doris Day.

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The other park, not far up the coast, was as perky and clean-cut as a barbershop quartet, painted the colors of sand and sky, with shipshape and jaunty ocean-inspired adventures, and zippy, futuristic, razzle-dazzle rides.

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As for women, Jessica remembers a character description calling for a woman with “perky t— and a flat stomach.”

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In “Harbor Nocturne,” a perky 91-year-old woman calls for help in waking her husband Howard.

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