pertly

Example Sentences

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“Whether hunkered on the floor petting a dog or sitting pertly on a couch,” he wrote, “she is regal yet casual, arresting yet homespun.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

The area immediately before us was flooded by sunlight: ancient machines with bobbins sitting pertly on their spindles, row after row of them, ready to whirl.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 11, 2016

Nora, barely looking up from her makeup compact, observes pertly, "Well, you might have put me first on the billing"; her delivery breezy as a spring afternoon.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2012

In this sequence they are joined by the show’s class clowns, the pertly girlish Laura Mead as Betsy, and the lovable goof Charlie Neshyba-Hodges as Marty.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2010

She sat back pertly in her chair and folded her hands, as if she were the one in need of a job.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood