pert

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Boonbunchachoke’s strange and funny script is constructed of multiple nesting stories, like how my own vacuum pops out a pert little dustbuster that really digs into the cracks.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

Carr’s choreography is more playful, alternately reflecting the appealing and distressing sides of amateur energy, getting its punch from hard-shoe solos, like one by the pert and crisp Kendal Griffler.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

Don't let its dark rosy red facade fool you: the flavor's light and tart, like strawberries mashed with a couple of citrus peels for pert bitterness.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2022

Where sunshine pooled, I found boulders to rest on; once I watched a pert red fox nose patches of frozen earth.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2021

“Mocking and jeering, were you not? Skeptical, with planchette’s very words before your eyes? Those young people pert and insolent?”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson