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

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)

Mr. Lewiston was a young man, small-featured, black-haired, smooth-shaven, and with an air of nattiness and fashion set at odds at present by a very pale and anxious face and eager, dilated black eyes.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday