pert

How to use pert in a sentence

They were pert and spoiled, untidy and noisy, although handsome and highly bred of feature.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

He looked at Mandleco with immense disdain, gave a pert tilt of his head and surveyed the room with a grimace of distaste.

“It is, young man, and my name is Susan,” was the quick reply; some people might have called it pert.

Hardly had the quarryman pronounced these words when the door flew open, and a young and attractive woman entered with a pert air.

I'll fix you up for the rest of the day, but won't answer for your feeling pert to-morrow.

Her brown sombrero was tilted, perhaps unintentionally, a little to one side of her rather pert and independently carried head.

He found a good meal awaiting him, and his wife on hand as pert as ever.

Her ton is far better than that of the little pert Miss Amory, who is dancing opposite to her.

She swept the floor in my lady's chamber, and took care of the rooms of the two pert misses.

I afterwards heard this lady telling Grace that her friend was a very pert young woman.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985