perky
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She is standing in front of The Barefoot Contessa with her dark hair coaxed into perky curls, wearing a matching aubergine button-down and skirt.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Palacio and its film adaptation, which featured Julia Roberts, the musical captures the perky and heartfelt spirit of the book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
Hudson encourages the audience to use Claire’s stubborn buoyancy and perky accent as a life raft when Lightning & Thunder are deluged by extremely bad luck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Not far behind is her perky - and unusual - cover of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
She’s perky, but I don’t feel like talking.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
"He's getting perkier and his injured eye looks better," Ms Smith said.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
The situation evokes both Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit,” where hell is defined as other people, and a perkier than usual episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
They might know areas of the hotel with perkier internet service.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023
However, we prefer a perkier, sweeter start to our day in the form of this simple Meyer lemon tart.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2021
“When you get to feeling perkier, I promise to buy you any flavor soda you want!”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
“I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday every day,” she crows in her perkiest voice, explaining why in the next line: “I’m so obsessed with him but he avoids me like a plague.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
The perkiest - by far - turned out to be the 90-year-old election guru so they did the obvious thing and popped him on set.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
The composite purchasing managers’ index, a measure of business activity in which a reading above 50 indicates growth, stood at 59.5 in July, the perkiest since records began in 1998.
From Economist ● Aug. 8, 2013
Michelle Delamor: And speaking of perky, here comes the perkiest of them all.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2010
And once everyone was milling around and chatting, Roz began speaking in her perkiest voice.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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