patness

Example Sentences

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But Mukherjee’s primary bulwark against patness is a piece of formal daring.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2016

Benjamin Black makes pointed asides about the dullness of Agatha Christie, and about the patness of mystery stories that resolve their loose ends too tidily.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2012

There was the patness — too obvious to be accidental — of their final exchange, when Will said, “No fuss, no muss,” and Alicia said, “That’s me.”

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2011

The brutalization through big-shotism and the defeat through victory of Joe Bonaparte, who becomes a prizefighter and breaks his violin-playing hands, is given a copybook patness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The super with the goose couldn't approach it for patness.

From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Allen, Grant