nattiness

Example Sentences

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They shared a general disregard for nattiness, an informal mode of speech, an obsession with detail, an irrepressible absent-mindedness.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2011

The inspiration could in part be a White House incumbent, whose folksy nattiness is a considerable part of his charm, but men's clothing is a thriving business.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the two men, Andre De Shields is a cat of cool gray nattiness and Ken Page is a slithery streetwise shark with a mi metic gift for Waller's gravelly mocking asides.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nothing puzzled Martha more than the nattiness with which he put all the bolts and bars back into their places, as if he had been used to the door as long as she had.

From We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

Remembering the legend of his unboylike fastidiousness, and the undoubted nattiness of his later years, it is curious to come upon an incident of directly opposite tendency.

From Haydn by Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert)