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pertness
noun as in impudence
Strong matches
- assumption
- assurance
- audaciousness
- audacity
- boldness
- brashness
- brass
- brazenness
- cheek
- cheekiness
- chutzpah
- cockiness
- crust
- defiance
- discourtesy
- disrespect
- effrontery
- face
- familiarity
- forwardness
- gall
- guts
- gutsiness
- hardiness
- impertinence
- incivility
- insolence
- moxie
- nerve
- overconfidence
- presumptuousness
- pushiness
- rudeness
- sauciness
- shamelessness
- spunk
- stuff
- temerity
Weak matches
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Example Sentences
Little did Tressan dream to what a cask of gunpowder he was applying the match of his smug pertness.
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Avoid sarcasm; it will, unconsciously to yourself, degenerate into pertness, and often downright rudeness.
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At times, too, when the wild fit was upon her, she would break into pertness and rebel openly against Alleyne's gentle firmness.
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"It is not our custom in Spain to reward pertness in a messenger," Don Pedro answered, patting the head of his greyhound.
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Hatty is growing much more like herself, with the pertness left out.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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