patness

Example Sentences

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As written, the words appear noncommittal, yet the rhyme implies the patness of what these women have to say.

From New York Times • May 17, 2018

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

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2016

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

Harrigan Blood admitted the patness of the guess with a wave of his hand, leaning heavily on the table with his elbows.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen